[cosine]

Competition is a good thing in government, too. Although the separate services fight turf wars, they also try different things. Sometimes one stumbles on something that is of benefit but was ignored by the other services.

One big thing almost never works very well no matter what the bean counters say.

[SampleMan]

Also, if you have the whole pie, you have a tendency to push certain priorities to the back burner. We can see this inside the USAF with the bomber force. What if the USAF had it all. Would carrier aviation be sacrificed in order to pay for long range bombers? Perhaps. I would be happier to see the USAF dismantled than to see everything conglomerated into it.

[pepperdog]

Anybody remember Robert McNamara and the FB-111? I rest my case.