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By retiring the A-10 has the miltary bureaucracy demonstrated that CAS has a lowered priority, even while the U.S. continues to fight a ground war in Afghanistan?
I'm also reading SECDEF Gates' autobiography where he describes a constant battle between the need for troop support equipment (eg MRAPs) and the Pentagon's preference for newer, "future war" R&D projects (think F-22). Does this friendly fire incident support his ideas that the defense budget is skewed too far towards developments that do not support current wars?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/29/defense-spending-cuts-blamed-in-friendly-fire-us-a/
I'm also reading SECDEF Gates' autobiography where he describes a constant battle between the need for troop support equipment (eg MRAPs) and the Pentagon's preference for newer, "future war" R&D projects (think F-22). Does this friendly fire incident support his ideas that the defense budget is skewed too far towards developments that do not support current wars?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/29/defense-spending-cuts-blamed-in-friendly-fire-us-a/