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Obama Warned Defense Department Budget “Not Sustainable”
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... Senior Pentagon advisory group tells the president-elect in “a series of bluntly worded briefings” he must cut back on or eliminate some of the military's weapons programs. Analysts suspect that the new F-35 fighter jet, a number of Navy ship programs, and the production of new ground combat vehicles will be the first to go.       ...

Monday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... to the team. * It won't be pleasant, but the Defense Business Board, a senior Pentagon advisory group, believes the current Pentagon budget is " not sustainable " and has to be cut significantly. * ...

Military Spending ‘Not Sustainable’
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... sustainable,” and he must scale back or eliminate some of the military’s most prized weapons programs. The briefings were prepared by the Defense Business Board, an internal management oversight body. It contends that the nation’s recent financial crisis makes it imperative that the Pentagon and Congress slash some of the nation’s most costly and troubled weapons to ensure they can finance the military’s most pressing priorities. Read more READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated Entries ...

Pentagon Asks Obama To Cut Military Spending
Oliver Willis — Pentagon Asks Obama To Cut Military Spending

"Warning"?
Upper Left — ... WASHINGTON - A senior Pentagon advisory group, in a series of bluntly worded briefings, is warning President-elect Barack Obama that the Defense Department's current budget is "not sustainable," and he must scale back or eliminate some of the military's most prized weapons programs. ...

Who Rules the Pentagon?
Antiwar.com Original — ... the Defense Department is going to have to make tough budget decisions involving tradeoffs between personnel, procurement, and future weapons spending." And now, President-elect Obama is hearing a similar message from the Defense Business Board, established in 2001 by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to give advice to the Pentagon. A few weeks ago, in briefing papers prepared for President-elect Obama's transition team, the Board, hardly an outfit unfriendly to the Pentagon, argued that some of the Defense Department's big weapons projects needed to be scrapped as the ...

Conn Hallinan: Guns, Butter, and Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... But coming to grips with the issue, as one military analyst noted, is likely to resemble the worst of World War I trench warfare. "It will be like the British Army at the Somme," Winslow Wheeler of the Center for Defense Information (CDI) told the Boston Globe, "you will just get mowed down by the defense industry." ...