Defense Budget!
By What Weinstein said:
Funny thing is, plenty of stuff will be missing from the Pentagon’s “bottom line”…and plenty more questions will go unanswered. That’s pretty much the norm: Pro-military politicians, defense contractors, and military brass alike tend to defend their federal dollars with patriotic rhetoric and confusing bureaucratese. The hope, it often seems, is to push journalists and laypeople into complacency on national-security spending.
Weinstein recommends Winslow Wheeler’s new e-book on the Pentagon as an guide to the labyrinth. I haven’t read it, but it sounds interesting. See also Spencer on some of the issues at stake in the new budget.