So Now Obama Wants Defense Reform
National Defense magazine reports that President Obama has recognized that our defense program is way overextended, and it’s now time to develop long-term strategic objectives for national defense. Tweets Sandra Erwin , “Obama calls for fundamental review of DOD missions a year too late. The 2010 QDR was supposed to do that.” Serious military analysts are skeptical . “Without a change in strategy, cuts in spending are worse than doing nothing,” said Christopher Preble, director of foreign policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute. The absence of “strategic choice” is the reason why decisions about where to cut defense spending have been nearly impossible to make, said Gordon Adams, American University professor and former director of the Office of Management and Budget. Cutting the defense budget should not be about doing the same with less, Adams said.
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on April 14, 2011. Filed under