In the end, it does make sense.

Though we are personally vested in the defense industry, we are trying to keep an open mind about budget cuts in the military made by the President. Unlike the private sector, the job of the President is indeed to pick winners and losers in the public sector via budgetary priorities.

Despite what that clownish windbag of a Veep says, we’re not all that convinced that we are safer now than we have been in the previous 8 yrs. under Bush (at 2+ months in, a fatuous claim to be sure). Then again, if by “safer”, one means simply shutting things down and ignoring the threats all around you then, yes, we could be talked into a nice warm cup of “ignorance” with respect to the threats posed to us. Hello, 1990s.

Besides, with every other part of the government growing at an astronomical rate, the President has decided to cut into large portions of the one job of the government that is specifically enumerated in the Constitution.

KT has some thoughts, here as to why this may be. Remember: who it is that you hang with speaks volumes about yourself.

And with specific respect to Navy acquisition and the strategic profile of the Navy, Information Dissemination has an outstanding post, here, regarding Influence Squadrons.