October 2011
3 posts
CSBA and the FY12 DoD Budget: Sane is as sane does
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments doing what they do best: serious analysis of defense budgets. Go read their analysis of the FY2012 budget - especially the Executive Summary (pdf). That is if you’re into sane people talking about serious things. If you like crazy, you may enjoy this a bit more. Whichever, it’s up to you.
The metamorphosis of Fort Knox
I just returned (very early this morning) from a whirlwind visit to Fort Knox. For those of you that don’t know, Fort Knox is not just home to the famous gold vault but had been the home of the U.S. Army’s Armor Center, and Armor soul, for quite a while until it moved in with the Infantry school at Fort Benning in the past year. BRACing the school shouldn’t have been a surprise...
You can take my tanks when you pry them from my...
Well, not my tanks anymore, but you get the idea. Like a lot of people, I’m going through this CNAS paper on the effects of potential DoD budget cuts. There is a lot of good stuff in it and some stuff I don’t think cuts it. For example @brettfriedman pointed out a very valid point that the recommended ground force end strengths are nearly useless unless those numbers are put into the...
