Winners And Losers Of The Defense Budget

Winners and Losers of the Defense Budget -- Robert Haddick, Small Wars Journal

In my Foreign Policy column, I discuss Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's roll-out of the Pentagon's post-COIN budget. He's taking the military to the high-tech future Donald Rumsfeld had in mind in 2001.

Is Donald Rumsfeld still at work at the Pentagon? The twice-former defense secretary came to the Pentagon in early 2001 with a plan to shift expenses away from manpower and toward technology, but 9/11, Iraq, and Afghanistan pulled him away from that course and eventually pushed him out of the building. But judging from the news out of Washington this week, Rumsfeld's high-tech, lean-headcount vision for the U.S. military has finally prevailed. The Pentagon's new way forward could hardly be more Rumsfeldian.

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My Comment: I am still digesting the impact of U.S. Defense budget cuts. I will be providing and posting a comprehensive look at it on Monday.