The Mans (Obalama) a silver tongued smooth talking fool.
Bringing this back to center, Obama hasn’t really proposed spending less on anything so far.
Yeah, he campaigned on buffering the USMC and the war in Iraq. He hasn’t asked for any specific DOD cuts yet. Gates is stil running the show at the Pentagon.
Cutting the V-22 would not be a bad thing. Swinging the FCS into reality would not be a bad thing. Buying the extra 60 F-22s Conrgress approved in this last session, ending it, and concentrating funds on the F-35 is a good. The cost overruns on so many programs right now are worthy of prosecution.
The U.S. Navy embarked on its 313 combat ship program but I don’t know if it’s necessary or relavent anymore. LCS is looking more and more a marginal, limited idea while we could spend money on vessels bigger but more capable flexible.
Rumfeld’s early ‘00s reorg was not all that. I felt he wanted to readjust the U.S. military for purely regional conflicts at the expense of global ones. Some of the ideology was good but not all......the Crusader was a hole.