Pentagon chief Robert Gates is conducting a news conference today on the release of the DoD Budget for fiscal 2010. As we’ve heard for the last several months, there’s probably going to be a bunch of dramatic cuts in there and it will be interesting to see what makes it and what doesn’t.
According to DoD Buzz editor Colin Clark, The Hill will get the bad news around noon.
DoD Buzz’s contributing editor Greg Grant is going to be live blogging Gates’ press conference today while it streams on the Pentagon Channel at 1:30pm. Colin will be at the Pentagon to cover the presser for a story later on.
So be sure to tune in to Buzz’s live blog today at 1:30.
– Christian
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Gates news conference for anyone who missed it.
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=285091-1
Thousands of phones just started ringing at Congressional Offices all over the country. I seriously doubt the President is going to fight Congress over this, unless he proves otherwise.
That is great news. Finally, someone making a hard decision instead of trying to spend and buy everything against everything that anyone dreams up. That is not strategy, but stupidity. War amongst the G-20? Nope. Small Wars and nationbuidling in the Middle East and Africa, Yep, guaranteed.
SECDEF Gates has been telegraphing these changes for quite some time. Everybody recalls how CSAF Gen Mosely and SECAF Wynne both resigned last June. One of the many reasons for this was the service lobbying for more Raptors than the 187 that Gates wanted.
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/07/airforce_wynne_070908w/
The Nuke foul-ups were just the icing on the cake. Gates has also been a critic of FCS and missile defense programs for a while too. In fact, he’s been pretty hard on just about every program that doesn’t contribute to winning our current wars in any meaningful way.
Watch, though, as the conservatives come out and accuse Obama of treason, corruption, selling the country’s future out, just plain being a big ol’ meanie over this.
Finally!
Defense procurement has been the biggest joke, and it’s been hypocritical for Republicans to talk about cutting spending, but always exempting the biggest porkbarrel projects in the United States: Defense projects.
Glad to see rationality eventually wins out over the mil-ind complex.
Great, all those lessons from the PREVIOUS wars against INSURGENTS, will come in real handy the next time are in a force on force war. This nonsense will get us all killed…
WHY ARE WE JUST GIVING UP ON STRATEGIC SUPERIORITY?
force on force war, eh?
Against whom? Who even comes close to meeting our superiority in technology OR training, much less both?
force on force war, eh?
Against whom? Who even comes close to meeting our superiority in technology OR training, much less both?
Posted by: Jake at April 6, 2009 04:28 PM
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Are you freakin serious? dude ok
1)”Quantity is its own quality”-stalin were out# by every enemy we have. Most of our troops are support troops.
2)Vietnam.
3)hell there are so many i cant even chose.
You can go all the way back to the cave men if you want. Thing is if you use weapons to fight one way your enemies will fight another.
@ Valcan. Learn to read better. You saw the technology part, but not the training part. If you had, you wouldn’t have brought up
1) Stalin
2) Vietnam
Last I checked, Stalin isn’t a great example of superior knowledge on war, since without our help on the Western front to divert the MUCH smaller Wehrmacht, Moscow would be spelled Moskau today.
Again, learn to read, and you’d see that the lesson from WW2 was that a much smaller Wehrmacht whooped the immensely large Russian Army’s ass until the United States entered the war.