The Nation: Pragmatist with a World View

Harold Brown last week shared his thoughts on defense policy with TIME Correspondent Bruce Nelan. Excerpts:

ON THE PENTAGON BUDGET. There are issues that need to be looked at—military pay and retirement programs, training programs, the rapid movement of the military from post to post, the creep upward into higher salary levels, the duplication between ourselves and our NATO allies on different systems. In every case where we are getting less for our money than we should be, there are historical, bureaucratic, political reasons for it. That's the way democracy works. But it means...

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