Defense Cuts? Bring Them On

Aviation Week: Deep and long-term budget cuts could be the best thing to happen to the U.S. defense enterprise in decades.

Austerity should enforce long-overdue change in the relative size and influence of air/space, land and sea forces. For the last decade of mostly land combat, the ground forces have dominated discussion of strategy, and the doctrine that no war can be won except by taking and holding ground has become a shibboleth to which all who aspire to be “joint” must pay homage.

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