The military is manufacturing a crisis to protect its wasteful, bloated, poorly designed budget. Sequestration, which mandates no-thought, across-the-board spending cuts, is a dumb way to force fiscal discipline. But there’s an alternative, at least at the Pentagon. Panetta and the generals could say to Congress: We accept that you politicians have backed yourselves into a corner and budgets have to come down. But let us point out several big-ticket items we can erase, rather than putting this process on autopilot.
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1. Ground the glitch-ridden F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.
2. While we’re at it, how about parking the Ground Combat Vehicle?
3. On the topic of Army gas-guzzlers: Even the generals admit that they don’t want or need an updated version of the familiar M1 combat tank.
4. Dock the Littoral Combat Ship.
5. Excess bureaucracy must go.
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-25/five-military-cuts-that-would-fix-sequestration#r=read
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