...in its long-haul effort to protect the-many-and-the-absurdly-expensive approach to acquisitions

ARTICLE: “Governors Fear National Guard Cut,” by Deborah Solomon, Wall Street Journal, 28 February 2006, p. A8.

Bush is forced to reassure all those governors that Guard units won’t get cut to pay for the big acquisitions still promised in the QDR and current budget submission, “but many remain unconvinced that the federal government will find the money to avoid making painful cuts.”

Ah yes, go short on people and long on big platforms for a Fourth Generation-style Long War. Makes sense to the defense industrial complex, but the govs are having a hard time.

Good for them. I hope it gets harder and harder and harder for them to understand, stomach, and live with.

And I hope they make their voices more known in 06 and 08.