These are the wastrels of defense.
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My guess is that you will never hear a peep about this as they debate the bill, ... Wastrels of Defense How Congress Sabotages U.S. Security.Winslow Wheeler
It is true that programs are going to be hunting for dollars. And it is true there are more programs than dollars. But the civilian leaders are doing nothing to bring the budget in line. Even though we are hearing a lot of rhetoric from the office of the Defense secretary, we see they are going along with what the services want. It shows who is running the Pentagon.
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Earmarks undergo virtually no review, making it impossible to distinguish between truly meritorious projects and those that are pure pork.
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That sounds like they're saying we'll save money because we're not at war. There's no justification in the report, so no way for me to check and see if this is as stupid as it sounds. They used it to cut accounts that provided training and rapid equipment acquisition by the Army, among other things.
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He has to convince me about this every time it comes up.
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We don't know if the operational tempo is going to go up, down, or stay the same. We don't know what the number will be or what the direction of the trend will be.
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