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. |