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Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc
So Brew, is it just the armor or do you feel he is failing badly in other areas?
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What burns me about SecDef is his activities involving cutting costs to fund Star Wars. A lot of those funding cuts (direct and indirect) like restructuring units to be "lighter and more agile" (which is pseudo-bullshit Clinton-era speak for "Less capable, less sustainable, less lethal) really pisses me off. I was all for cancelling the Comanche and the Crusader SPH, but when we start consolidating infantry units, and converting non-combat arms MOS's into infantry in order to take up the slack... there's just something wrong with that.
I am actually FOR a missile defense system, but not at the expense of Joe Snuffy and combat effectiveness in a shooting war.
I don't believe these were easy decisions for SecDef to make, but it does seem to me that he's so focused on the 25m Target that he's not paying attention to the 3m Target.