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...will take months, perhaps years, before the same can be said for the rest of Iraq. Though the adviser program has contributed to a rare success on Haifa Street, getting the rest of the Iraqi army up to speed will take some doing. A Pentagon official says most of the 62,000 Iraqi army soldiers the U.S. has trained are still kids who "just know the basic soldiering skills--they've learned to march and shoot their rifles." If the U.S. hopes to get its troops out anytime soon, those Iraqis are going to have to grow up fast. --With...
...level the issue was money. Aspin, a Wisconsin Democrat, agreed to go along with the Senate's total $302.5 billion for the Pentagon, some $10 billion more than the House had approved. This provides a 3% increase in funding, thus allowing the Pentagon to keep pace with inflation. Aspin, who headed the House conferees, traded the higher figure for language forcing the services to re-examine their purchasing procedures and the rising costs of some of their major new weapons systems...
...million), for example. Ironically, virtually the only concession granted by the Senate was to go along with the desire of the House to spend $100 million more for research on a future weapon: the mobile, single-warhead Midgetman intercontinental ballistic missile. The so-called compromise even gave the Pentagon 1,000 more missiles, mostly Sidewinders, than it had sought...
...this seed money is fairly small. After that, it is virtually impossible to stop, no matter how high the costs soar above original estimates. "Once a system nears the production stage it's too late," says Maine's Republican Senator William Cohen. "There's such a constituency of the Pentagon, the contractors and potential job holders that no democratically elected Congress...
...high priority at a time of limited available funds. They were the 9-mm Beretta handgun, which is a replacement for the venerable Colt .45; the Navy's SH-2F submarine-hunting helicopter; and the Army's field artillery support vehicle. All were restored in conference simply because the Pentagon would be saving $1 billion by closing some of its bases, and an additional $1.8 billion by curtailing retirement spending. That meant the military budget would fall below the Senate's $302.5 billion ceiling. Instead of moving closer to the House limit and saving the money, the conferees decided...