Loren Thompson
Loren Thompson
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We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.
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We're in no rush to bomb Iran. The fact that we have bombing plans on the shelf for dealing with Iran is not new because we've been generating those plans for a quarter-century. That's what planners do.
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If it doesn't get the money, at some point down the road, Northrop is going to have to raise the cost of building warships to cover the cost of doing business.
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There is a huge demand for spare parts that only Sikorsky can meet. Without the Teamsters, the company can't maintain a coherent production schedule.
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If we're going to bomb Iran, it's a long time off in the future, and we're certainly not going to use nuclear weapons to do it.
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If the rules are too demanding, they're going to be hard pressed to find a place to operate other than a desert. When you build a military base, somebody is going to lose their land, somebody is going to object because of noise. But if everybody gets a veto then you're not going to have any new military bases anywhere.
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What you see in these examples is that the Nunn-McCurdy cost breaches cover a lot of diversity in terms of causes and consequences. To punish programs equally for such different difficulties is not constructive.
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What you're seeing in these recent remarks is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how widely disliked Rumsfeld is.
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Having already gone through a bad aircraft choice once, the Army wants to make absolutely certain that this time it picks the right aircraft.
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He has always taken the role of a controversial visionary whose job is to articulate a new path forward to people who don't want hear it.
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You have to wonder where the Army thinks it's going after Iraq.
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The government should never have tried to develop one system to meet the very different needs of the Army and Navy.
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What happened here is that the technology enthusiasts got far beyond what the laws of physics would allow.
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There has been a lot of talk about the appropriate head count for the National Guard. But the actual number of National Guard soldiers is far less important than how well-equipped each of those soldiers is.