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Editorial: Hard Times
The Way It’s Going To Be
The Big Squeeze
On the Minds of the Troops
Strategic Alaska
A New Look at Roles and Missions
Airpower Genesis
Goering’s Big Bungle
AFA National Convention 2008
Top Issues
Air Force Technology Exposition

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Hard Times
By Robert S. Dudney, Editor in Chief
Pentagon spending didn’t cause the economic crisis, and drastic cuts will not end it, either.

"The world may be heading for its worst recession in a quarter of a century—if it’s lucky," read an Oct. 13 Bloomberg dispatch.

In that article, experts expressed a belief the new slump would rival the big one that hit the US in 1982. There was hope, stated a former Treasury official, "that it won’t become the worst ... since the Great Depression."

If history is a guide, this means trouble for the military. The features of a big recession—slack revenues, heavy social needs—always put pressure on defense.

Already, Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), a powerful House defense appropriator, has declared, "The next President is going to be forced to decrease defense spending in order to respond to neglected domestic priorities."

The US military will suffer a setback if that dubious proposition gains too much momentum. ...

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