military procurement
This is indescribably awesome in every way:Via Danger Room.
If you read Defense News, you quickly become familiar with Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute. He appears in an extraordinary number of stories, usually as voice recommending the purchase.
I like the combination of percentage of GDP with percentage of world spending. Via.
Via Ezra, this is an interesting post from Gordon Adams:For a major program to emerge, thrive, and survive, it takes basically three players: the service that wants and will advocate.
Obama: But I reject the notion that we have to waste billions of taxpayer dollars on outdated and unnecessary defense projects to keep this nation secure. That’s why I’ve taken.
Senate rejects extra funding for the F-22!!!!
Although he resists saying so directly, I think that the upshot of Travis Sharp's Parameters article on GDP and the defense budget would run something like this: People who want.
Spencer has been following the F-22 debate closer than I; it appears that Carl Levin lacks the votes to outright kill the F-22, and thus that the potential for a.