From the Danger Room, Noah reports on a teleconference with SecDef Gates and Gen. Cartwright:
Marine General at Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff James Cartwright says the [Quadrennial Defense] Review will handle all kinds of tradeoffs. For instance: "If you have bombers in the Pacific, do you also have to have aircraft carriers?" he asks. "Do we always have to have every thing in every service? How much of this do we really need, especially given the situation we face which is a much broader spectrum of conflict over a much great geographic dispersal than we've had in the past?"
Yes. As long as the Services are in charge of acquisition and Congress is in charge of funding said projects, there will be "service-unique" capabilities that are duplicated in other branches of the armed forces. The Joint Staff and OSD can mitigate, but not stop, this inbred behavior. This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.
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