F-22s (Photo from Boeing)From The Danger Room:
In an article posted yesterday on the Foreign Affairs website, Defense Secretary Robert Gates fired a warning shot in the direction of the defense industry and the Pentagon bureaucracy. "We must not be so preoccupied with preparing for future conventional and strategic conflicts that we neglect to provide all the capabilities necessary to fight and win conflicts such as those the United States is in today," he writes.
Support for conventional modernization programs is deeply embedded in the Defense Department's budget, in its bureaucracy, in the defense industry, and in Congress. My fundamental concern is that there is not commensurate institutional support -- including in the Pentagon -- for the capabilities needed to win today's wars and some of their likely successors.
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