As just about everyone who blogs on military issues has discovered, there is a fascinating Tom Ricks nugget in the Washington Post yesterday. The Air Force (our Air Force) notes that "the budget battle is zero sum - others gain is our loss" and notes that the Air Force seeks to return to "prominence" in national security.
This is silly, and everyone knows that. In some sense this isn't surprising (I've always viewed the Pentagon as primarily a bureaucratic vehicle, that sometimes manages to fight wars), but it is depressing to see this when were in two active shooting wars. Shame on the Air Force for doing this now.
Posted by baltar at January 29, 2008 09:16 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Atrocities of War | Corporate Bullshit | Corruption | Military AffairsAnd of course, the USAF wants the extra money so that it can have MORE FIGHTER PLANES, which is so very very much not what the US needs to be spending defense dollars on right now. Sigh.
Posted by: jacflash at January 29, 2008 10:15 AM | PERMALINK