[LibWhacker]

"The Bush administration has now killed the two biggest Army weapons programs it inherited from the Clinton administration,"

I'm sure that human piece of dog excrement gave all its secrets to the Chicoms and the Soviets anyway, so why build it?

[GreyFriar]

Actually the Commanche program started in 1983, under Reagan. This is an example of the requirements a program continuing to change and thus killing a program. I don't remember when Crusader started, possibly also during the Reagan years. As a former artilleryman, I saw it as a good development that would help offset US shortage in artillery. What isn't talked about from the campaign in Iraq is that both the Army and the Marines needed more artillery support during several of their fights, when the helo's were grounded for various reasons.