Funding for the major recommendations will go to Congress in the Defense budget on Monday and Congress will have its say on them.
I would be very surprised to see Congress taking a big whack at this.
In addition, the intercontinental ballistic missile force is aging and it's not clear that the nuclear mission is a big priority anymore for the Defense Department or Air Force. They want to acquire new fighters and deep-strike forces that can be used in conventional, not nuclear conflicts.
The QDR is a plan or blueprint of what the Bush administration wants to do the next several years with military forces, but it's not a done deal.
The war is turning out to cost a lot more than anticipated, and not simply because there are far more troops deployed for far longer than the Bush administration assumed.
When you do an occupation war where you're patrolling neighborhoods, and your opponent isn't a tank division but it's a suicide bomber or a few people with small arms, air power cannot play the primary role.
You can't do counterinsurgency warfare without a large army. The operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are largely army affairs.
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