Adam Smith actually said...

It is brutal and difficult, and it is just as brutal and difficult for the non-defense discretionary budget to try and do that as well.

Describing the challenges faced by the Pentagon under budget constraints.

04/01/2019

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We are in the exact opposite position, facing an array of complex threats that are going to require... resources and considerable creativity...

What sense does it make to have the big-deck carriers?

We could help ourselves enormously if we got rid of sequestration.

I think this is going to reverse that in a huge, huge way.