…Fy 2009 Request: $515.4 A cumulative 70.4% increaseover 2001. The operating costs of the wars are paid off budget with supplementals. See: Table 6-1 Pg 62 and following: How could…

…to transfer from the General Fund (or roughly the one year cost of the current wars). Which suggests a target date for implementation right around 2026-2027. Which suggests firing up…

…threat? That is not what MDA does and MDA is a priority. Not what gaps it fills. The solution of the past few decades has been Star Wars regardless of…

…producing the system with qualities like reliability and maintenance, but delivering efficient repair instructions, supply lists, tools, trained manpower and facilities to repair things. Often in the acquisition wars the…

…the naval wars. There were no refueling aircraft to shepherd the fighters across the seas. The standard navy line was to build a large fleet carriers, which were very fast…

…but one measure of this shift can be found at the Air Force: Through a combination of budget cuts, the demands of fighting two wars and the difficulty of recruiting…

…the price. In other words none of the firms will be making a profit. It’s true that there are sometimes limited price wars of this nature, but in many cases…

…suffering from two wars that have killed 4,579 U.S. troops and inflicted physical wounds on 32,076 more. There currently are 155,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and 33,000 in Afghanistan. Readers…

…tax holidays for the Pentagon, not in the Middle East, anyway. Worse yet, the U.S. military will need even more oil for the future wars on which the Pentagon is…

…the place where a big chunk of the Iraq war’s soaring price is paid. The center doles out more than $104 billion annually, making it Defense’s largest disburser. Theoretically, when…