The Pentagon Needs New Concepts For 2013
New Capabilities, New Constraints Call For New Concepts In 2013 -- Aol Defense
Whatever happens with sequestration, Pentagon planners are now struggling to fit the services' myriad programs under a reduced budget topline. Advocates point to their particular project or personnel as vital to US warfighting capacity. Technologists point to new capabilities that will allow us to do more with equal or even fewer resources. Traditionalists encourage maintaining or even increasing manpower to achieve security objectives the old fashioned way, boots on the ground, airmen in the air, sailors at sea.
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My Comment: The strategy is being determined by the budget .... not the budget being determined by the strategy. This shift represents a seismic change in U.S. foreign/military/national defense thinking, and one that should make all of us very concerned .... especially since there has been zero debate on the pros and cons in following such a direction.
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National Security Strategy
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