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Article snippet: The Pentagon is off the hook — at least for the time being — for planning MORE’s display of military might down Pennsylvania Avenue. Trump cancelled his desired military parade after its $92 million price tag leaked to the media, blaming D.C. officials for the high cost and saying he’d attend a parade in Paris and one at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland instead. The cancellation lifts a burden off the Pentagon, which would have had to divert resources for a parade as it works to recover from what it has described as a readiness crisis. Todd Harrison, a defense budget expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that while $92 million is less than 1 percent of the Pentagon's budget, the real concern is time lost. “If they spend weeks practicing and preparing for the parade, that comes at the expense of other training they could be doing,” Harrison said in an email. “You can always add more money to cover the costs of something like this, but you can never get the time back.” Some veterans who the parade was meant to honor balked at the price tag. “The American Legion appreciates that our president wants to show in a dramatic fashion our nation’s support for our troops,” Denise Rohan, national commander of The American Legion, said in a statement Thursday. “However, until such time as we can celebrate victory in the War on Terrorism and bring our military home, we think the parade money would be better spent fully funding the Department of Ve... Link to the full article to read more