Loren Thompson
Loren Thompson
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This is an interesting twist on an argument that the Air Force has been pursuing for some time on the need to cut its purchases of Joint Strike Fighters. The Air Force has settled on a number of about 1,100.
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I think that there's no question that the Air Force is leaning toward US 101 as the solution to the mission.
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The crux of this issue is that the Marine force really isn't very well designed for the type of fight it's facing in Iraq.
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The entire Marine force was designed around the concept of amphibious warfare, which is a good deal different from the kind of conflict they're fighting in Iraq today, hundreds of miles from the sea. The Marines are a light force; they kick in the door but they are not supposed to occupy all the rooms.
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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.
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Rumsfeld will have been so weakened by this process that as the election approaches the White House will signal that his resignation wouldn't be unwelcome.
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Rumsfeld was a buffer between the president and public criticism and staying behind him was a sign of Bush's strength. Now Rumsfeld is becoming the cause of the criticism and standing behind him could be interpreted as a sign of weakness.
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Cutting that much money from the program clearly foreshadows either program termination or a long delay and major restructuring.
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Cutting-edge military technology today is very similar to cutting-edge commercial technology. It's not clear we can control any of these dual-use technologies to stop them from reaching enemy hands.
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There's going to be big cuts in the spacecraft program.
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What you see in these examples is that the Nunn-McCurdy cost breaches cover a lot of diversity in terms of causes and consequences. To punish programs equally for such different difficulties is not constructive.
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What you're seeing in these recent remarks is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how widely disliked Rumsfeld is.
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Having already gone through a bad aircraft choice once, the Army wants to make absolutely certain that this time it picks the right aircraft.
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If we're going to bomb Iran, it's a long time off in the future, and we're certainly not going to use nuclear weapons to do it.