Time wasted and the Defense Budget...

via National Defense.

"Looking at the modernization bow wave in the 2020s, we are embarking on a number of programs that, regardless of what we see with the [Budget Control Act] … I just don't see how we are going to cram all of those major programs into the budget at the same time," Todd Harrison, a senior fellow for defense budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, said March 16.

The "bow wave" refers to weapon system modernization programs that are progressing at the same time, creating a budget crunch.

As a result, many programs could be cut, delayed or deferred in 2018 or 2019, he said at a forum titled, "The Pentagon Budget: Prospects for Reform," at the CATO Institute, a Libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C. 



Awesome.

I think these analyst are onto something which makes the F-35 fiasco even more tragic.  Time was wasted on that program that can't be made up and many needed programs will die because of it.

ACV, I'm looking at you.  Even if it limps along through the current sequestration issue you're still looking at this demographic time bomb.

Amazing.

All the fancy little "inside DC talk"...all the rebranding and moves to embrace infantile social media bullshit has resulted in one thing.  Failure of leadership to have the moral courage to deal with failure, reverse themselves and do what is necessary to protect a nation.

If this prediction is correct then we will be #2 militarily by 2020...a full ten years faster than my previous worse case scenario.