Pentagon Forecast: The Perfect Storm -- Jed Babbin, American Spectator
Sequestration, scheduled for January 2013, is already shutting down America's defenses.
Over the North Atlantic in 1991, several rare meteorological events occurred simultaneously combining, as Sebastian Junger wrote, into "The Perfect Storm" of massive destructive power. Next January a series of bad congressional actions -- and some awful Pentagon decisions on weapon systems -- may combine with the deteriorating outlook for the defense industry to create a perfect storm for the Pentagon. If that storm hits, it will have an enormously destructive effect on America's ability to defend itself for a generation.
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My Comment: Another sobering view on the mess that is know as the Pentagon budget. But as bad as this is .... should President Obama earn a second term .... I am predicting that there will be even more cuts and defense program terminations .... in short .... the cuts that are being talked about today will be in pittance to what we may be discussing 2 or 3 years from now.
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