Anyway the Center for Defense Information was founded by Gene La Rocque, a retired admiral and they are gadflys to DOD.
The CDI has a publication, Defense Monitor and they rarely have anything positive to say about US Defense or Foreign Policy. Rear Admiral Eugene James Carroll, Jr was another prominent leader of CDI. Both Carroll and La Rocque appeared often on television and it is amazing to me that either rose so high in the Navy.
At one point, per the Wiki piece, La Rocque received a severe rebuke:
"In August 1983, 575 retired admirals, led by Thomas Moorer, placed an advertisement in The Washington Times criticizing La Rocque for appearing on Soviet television..."
Anything from CDI needs a big grain of salt.
Bump!
Completely agreed.
The entire panoply of forces against the U.S. military, external and internal, seem bound and determined to keep us from preserving our air-superiority.