Which seems just stupid in its face, but then you realize that almost all of the budgeting is line itemed for specific capabilities.
If leadership can’t change resources around to fix such a glaring problem due to legal/budgeting rules, then I’m sorry to say they can’t win a conflict.
Pretending corruption isn’t corruption because it is signed into law is one of the great blind spots of America, one on which it will continue to lose in its foreign excursions just like every major conflict it’s been in since I’ve been alive.