Portraying a Defense Budget Increase as a Cut

Josh Rogin of Congressional Quarterly does a great job fleshing out some of the budget-backstory between the Defense Department and the Office of Management and Budget that I alluded to in this post.

Basically, OMB told the Pentagon late last week that it wasn’t going to accept the More…

The Coming Military-Civilian Resource Shift, Cont’d (II)

The Pentagon under Defense Secretary Robert Gates is like a Crazy Eddie’s store: move this merchandise out of here at all costs. Well, not really, but it’s still striking that Gates and the counterinsurgency advocates around him are pressing the point that the Defense Department needs to More…