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...cuts that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney unveiled last week are the most significant so far, but they fail the Nunn test. Rather than rethinking weapons programs, Cheney simply trimmed some back and stretched them out. The proposals...
...Reduce the purchase of B-2 Stealth bombers from 132 to 75. But Cheney did not persuasively explain why the U.S. needs another expensive, as yet unproven strategic bomber at all when the Air Force already has the new B-1 bomber and the still reliable B-52. Moreover, in one of the traditional paradoxes of military procurement, slashing and stretching out the Stealth program will increase the per-plane cost from $530 million to $815 million...
...Scale back the huge $240 million buy of C-17 transport planes, designed for rapid reinforcement in Europe, from 210 to 120. The longer warning time required for a Warsaw Pact attack, Cheney said, will permit more U.S. resupply by ship. Cheney also argued that the big C-17 can land on the shorter runways of Third World airports. But the C-17, though arguably necessary against the Warsaw Pact, is too much airplane for Third World tasks, and any successor should be more like the reliable C-141s still flying...
...Earlier this month, Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and William Cohen of Maine proposed cutting the U.S. defense budget ($291 billion in fiscal 1990) 4% in each of the next five years. That was almost twice as much as the 2.6% yearly reduction proposed by Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, but not nearly so ambitious as the 10.4% whack for 1991 that the House Budget Committee suggested last week...
...Because these school are working on research projects, you can bet the administrators of the various departments know people in the Pentagon," Hyde says, noting that Deutsch--a close associate of Cheney--opened his letter to Cheney with "Dear Dick...