military-civilian

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 fiscal 2010 budget request, written during the final [...]

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 do less in the national-security realm and the [...]