[LjubivojeRadosavljevic]

...The secretary of defense spoke as though it were inevitable that the Pentagon cannot get enough money to sustain today’s force structure , much less get the funds need to equip the next generation men and women in uniform.

Well, then just raise taxes on the American middle- class people...that's where the money is inevitably going to come to sustain the force structure--right?

[Jet Jaguar]

And shouldn’t any decision on this be put on hold until the administration delivers its National Security Strategy, so we can see what our troops will be expected to achieve?

Key question.