Trust me, you don't create a group of retired generals and admirals to come up with ideas on how to modernize the military. When they were active duty, they were the very leaders who maintained the status quo.
Most of this particular group where the ones who helped tear it down, usually under DemocRat adminstrations, or with DemocRat "sponsers" in Congress.
This is how this works. ALL of these boys and girls...are on someone's payroll (Lockheed-Martin, SAIC, Mantech, etc)...and they will simply state what their company needs to make a huge profit. None of these people ever modernized anything while in uniform...nor can they claim that. But their retired status is all that Kerry needs now. He is hoping that some GI's may see his approval by these dimwits...and plus up his points amongst today's military. Most of us had very poor ratings (AF dimwit: McPeak, was one of the biggest losers of the last 20 years, and most organizations were happy to see him go).