The government should never have tried to develop one system to meet the very different needs of the Army and Navy. |
The Marines themselves have been trained heavily for this kind of combat ... there is no problem with Marine training, |
The military hangs every wish, and every lost cause, onto the tree in hopes of getting it approved. |
The military needs to focus on its core competencies - fighting wars, ... If we load the military with every mission that other cabinet agencies don't do well, then it won't be able to do its job well. |
The military really can't win in the public relations battle, |
The most important consideration is that they're running out of fuel. |
The official line on FCS is that it is on budget and on schedule. But that may be more a reflection of its nebulous performance criteria than any real progress. |
The Pentagon is about to deliver another defense review anticlimax. |
The president has got much bigger issues to worry about right now, |
The program is now back on track, there's not going to be a big holdup. |
The sad thing is that in the effort to demonstrate that it is being diligent, the agency is undermining popular support for any manned spaceflight. It enforces the public's apprehension of human spaceflight. |
The U.S. military is potentially the largest consumer of water purification technology in the world. |
The words in the QDR don't seem to bear much resemblance to the numbers in the '07 spending request. |
There has been a lot of talk about the appropriate head count for the National Guard. But the actual number of National Guard soldiers is far less important than how well-equipped each of those soldiers is. |
There is a huge demand for spare parts that only Sikorsky can meet. Without the Teamsters, the company can't maintain a coherent production schedule. |