This is a truly spectacular tubesteak in the April Fools Day issue of the American Conservative produced with verve by two writers I am proud to call my friends!!!!!!
Chuck
Mindless Missiles
The Pentagon’s drone budget is on autopilot.
BY WINSLOW T. WHEELER AND PIERRE M. SPREY
American Conservative, 1 April 2010
Today’s Pentagon is led by its most widely respected secretary of defense in decades, one more in control and feared by the generals than any since the much-hated Robert McNamara. One would hope that with this stature, Robert Gates is nurturing a plan to reverse the decay afflicting our military forces. Think again. The only plan will make things worse.
It was revealed in early February in an obscure, mostly ignored document that accompanied Secretary Gates’s new defense budget—the “Aircraft Investment Plan, Fiscal Years (FY) 2011-2040.” Though the Pentagon has never been able to stick to even the second year of any of its innumerable future year plans, it is confidently laying out a roadmap for the next three decades for all aircraft in the Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps.
Contrary to the invective that politicians and their think-tank cronies hurl against the Obama administration, this new plan does not ruin America’s air power with less money, but with more. It promotes some of the most gold-plated, mindlessly ineffective weapons seen since the Imperial Japanese Navy’s mega-battleships were dispatched to the bottom of the Pacific.
See also:
Journal: The Looting of America Continues… x Journal: Lockheed Mark to Market Pentagon Style x Journal: Sun Tzu & How NOT To Lose… x Journal: Pentagon’s Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) as a Metaphor for a Predictable Defense Meltdown x Journal: DoD Mind-Set Time Lags Most Fascinating x Graphic: OSINT DOSC MDSC as Kernel for Global Grid to Meet Stabilization & Reconstruction as Well as Whole of Government Policy, Acquisition, and Operations Support x Graphic: 1991 Family of Defense Intelligence Products x Journal: USN Refuses NGF for USMC–Gap Clearly Identified by Expeditionary Factors Study in 1989 x Journal: Intelligence & Innovation Support to Strategy, Planning, Programming, Budgeting, & Acquisition x Search: QDR OSINT x Journal: A Tale of Two Flying Pigs x Journal: Contractors Out of Control, Money Wasted x Journal: Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones x Search: The Future of OSINT [is M4IS2-Multinational] x Journal: U.S. Air Force–Remote from War & Reality x Journal: The Intelligence War Not Fought x Journal: Cyber-Security or Cyber-Scam? Plus Short List of Links to Reviews and Books on Hacking 101 x Search: Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield x Journal: Strategy versus Secrecy x Journal: Defense Research, Science, & Technology x Journal: Chuck Spinney on Moral and Mental Collapse of the Federal Government
