* Moon plans move ahead
* Giant blimps go luxury
* China web censor hearts Bushies
* Training goal: “clone” great officers
* DOD budget: “new high for defense spending… new lows in the quantity of Army divisions, Navy combat ships, and Air Force wings.”
Rapid Fire 02/14/06
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The cloning article is probably the most interesting and sensible one. You distill hundreds of small factoids and force a person to process them in one gulp, rather than “accruing” the information as battlefield experience. It’s the same as using flowcharts to illustrate optimal decision-making, and similar to the sci-fi dream of using hypnopaedia to train people for tasks.
When I turn the age of 18 I want to join the military
Hmm. You point to an item with the quote “DOD budget: new high for defense spending… new lows in the quantity of Army divisions, Navy combat ships, and Air Force wings.”
Just wondering, but is the author of that report correcting for inflation?
I ran across a set of charts showing defense funding in dollars, constant 2003 dollars, and fraction-of-gdp here:
http://home.comcast.net/~andy_dunn/budget_main.html#national_defense.
It is a “new high” unadjusted for inflation. The only times it was higher was WW2, ‘Nam and Reagan (ugh) to Bush Sr. Looks to be the highest since ’92…which is I believe what Defensetech has stated before in earlier articles.