The Air Force That Comes Next

摘要

That was some news conference that Robert Gates held on April 6. Numerous expensive programs-especially USAF weapons-were put to the sword. Not for money reasons, evidently. These steps would have been taken, Gates said, "regardless of the department's top-line budget number."rnIf what the Secretary of Defense said was true-and why would anyone doubt him; Gates is an honorable man-he was not caving in to political pressure to cut defense spending. He was only killing weapons that needed killing.