The Pentagon, it turns out, is a building so well defended that even urgent messages that the cold war is over have failed to breach its barricades. At a time when budget zealots are attacking everything from Medicare to corporate welfare to whole Cabinet departments, the U.S. military has presented Congress with a plan to spend as much on new warplanes over the next decade as it did during the huge defense buildup of the 1980s. If Congress decides, as a growing number of experts have, that the proposal to spend a grand total of $415 billion over the next 35...
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