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It's not hard to see where this story ends -- he won't be effective in office. He's losing his ability to execute his agenda.

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It's time for the administration to do a fundamental reassessment of what it is that we are willing to do in order to stabilize Iraq. The United States needs to draw a line in terms of how deep it is willing to be drawn into Iraqi domestic politics.

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They're expecting that the government will publicly disclose its approval of the transaction, with conditions, this month.

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This is an interesting twist on an argument that the Air Force has been pursuing for some time on the need to cut its purchases of Joint Strike Fighters. The Air Force has settled on a number of about 1,100.

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The government should never have tried to develop one system to meet the very different needs of the Army and Navy.

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The big question going forward is how intensive the military commitment to Iraq remains. If it stays at current levels, then the Army is facing a recruiting challenge every month for years to come.

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The Army is doing most of the fighting in a very unpopular war. That means no amount of money is going to make recruiting an easy job.

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You have to wonder where the Army thinks it's going after Iraq.

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As the war in Iraq drags on, the Army is accumulating a collection of problems that cumulatively could call into question the viability of an all-volunteer force.

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A prolonged shut down of spare parts production potentially endangers Army readiness. There's no way Sikorsky can maintain a high rate of production without the Teamsters on the line.

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Having already gone through a bad aircraft choice once, the Army wants to make absolutely certain that this time it picks the right aircraft.

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He has always taken the role of a controversial visionary whose job is to articulate a new path forward to people who don't want hear it.

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They're largely meeting their quotas in the midst of an increasingly unpopular war, They're barely pulling in a handful of people in a country of 300 million. What these numbers show is the average recruiter is bringing in one recruit a month. That's not a great performance.

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Past Israeli behavior does not inspire confidence.

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It's just to guarantee that we're not left blind against an enemy missile launch.

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Gordon England has believed since he was in industry that the acquisition system is broken. If given the opportunity, he'll push to change almost every aspect of the way the Pentagon does business because he believes billions of dollars are being wasted.

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If it doesn't get the money, at some point down the road, Northrop is going to have to raise the cost of building warships to cover the cost of doing business.

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Cutting-edge military technology today is very similar to cutting-edge commercial technology. It's not clear we can control any of these dual-use technologies to stop them from reaching enemy hands.

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If you're Frank Lanza, you're getting on in years, you don't have a clear succession plan in place, and your share price may be as high as it's going to get. Why wouldn't you be thinking about selling

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Since it's actually a handful of nuts with no real resources at their command, it's a little hard to see why such imagery is appropriate.

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There is a huge demand for spare parts that only Sikorsky can meet. Without the Teamsters, the company can't maintain a coherent production schedule.

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Although they may not have won the original competition in an entirely proper manner, they've got a pretty strong track record in developing these kinds of weapons.

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The entire Marine force was designed around the concept of amphibious warfare, which is a good deal different from the kind of conflict they're fighting in Iraq today, hundreds of miles from the sea. The Marines are a light force they kick in the door but they are not supposed to occupy all the rooms.

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An invisible line has been crossed, and the decline in Rumsfelds tenure has now begun. He has gradually alienated each of his core constituencies, including the Congress, the media, the think tanks, the defense industry and now much of the officer corps.

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It is so uncommon for senior military officers in the United States to criticize civilian leaders that it has to make an impression on the White House and Congress.

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