Thursday, March 12, 2009

MCHUGH: Cutting defense too deeply

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/10/cutting-defense-too-deeply/

The hollow defense budgets, peace dividends and the procurement holiday that marked the Clinton administration's defense policy appear to be making a comeback.

The message hidden between the lines of the 2010 Defense Department budget released last week is that defense spending will decline in the coming years and that the military will be forced to do more with less. We've been down this road before; we cannot repeat the same mistakes.