Will Gates fund the SysAdmin?

ARTICLE: U.S. Army Battling To Save Equipment: Gear Piles Up at Depots, Awaiting Repair, By Ann Scott Tyson, Washington Post, December 5, 2006; Page A01

Today, Foreign Policy's web editor emailed for a comment on Gates (provided), and my gist was that if Gates still employs spook-speak on China, expect no serious resource shift from air to ground, from NCW to 4GW, from USAF/USN to USA/USMC/SOF, from Leviathan to SysAdmin or from Cold War to Long War.

And that's not right, given the obvious strain on our ground forces, as indicated by this story.

My weekend column, BTW, speaks exactly to this issue with the incoming SECDEF.