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December 19, 2016

Defense Analyst Byron Callan quoted on ForeignPolicy.com

"SitRep: Will Trump Cyber Hawks Hack Back?; Beijing Mocks, Warns, Incoming President" by Paul McLeary and Adam Rawnsley


Defense analyst Byron Callan was quoted in Paul McLeary and Adam Rawnsley's Foreign Policy article, "SitRep: Will Trump Cyber Hawks Hack Back?; Beijing Mocks, Warns, Incoming President". 

Byron Callan of Capital Alpha Partners said in a note to investors Sunday that Mulvaney likely "won't tolerate large defense spending increases without finding offsetting cost savings in the DoD, deeper non-defense cuts, or other revenue assumptions." But – and this is a big but – Callan also told investors that "Trump's tweets and a relatively inexperienced National Security Council raise the possibility, in our view, that a crisis could occur in 2017 that alters defense spending plans and may impinge on deficit discipline."

Source: http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/12/19/sitrep-trump-cyber-hawks-hack-russia-putin-beijing-mocks-trump-signals-or-confusion-over-defense-budget-aleppo-chaos/