Thursday, March 12, 2009

Congress faces manpower vs. weapons choice

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29537796/
President Barack Obama and Congress are facing several years of painful trade-offs on national defense — a debate that in many cases will boil down to manpower vs. weapons.

"One thing we have known for many months is that the spigot of defense funding that opened on 9/11 is closing," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee in January.