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• Title: Sticker Shock and Awe: Our Defenses should Get Smaller and Smarter, Not More Expensive (Military) (Defense Spending)
• Author : The American Conservative
• Release Date : January 06, 2009
• Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 65 KB

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PENTAGON OFFICIALS SAY that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will soon announce up to a half-dozen weapons-system cancellations. If that's true--and I'm not convinced it is--Gates will probably meet more resistance than the Allies ran into at Normandy. The time-honored adage says that generals always plan for the last war. American generals, taking things a step further, always plan for the last World War. As strategy analyst William Lind notes of our weapons-acquisition practices, "most of what we are buying is a military museum." For all the Pentagon's lip service to "transformation" and "revolution in military affairs," today's force looks like a Buck Rogers version of the force we defeated the Axis Powers with: aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines, armor, infantry, bombers, fighters, special forces, and so on.

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