Reagan(UGH)? you slimey little leftist turd...you seem to have forgotten jimmy carter and the 400 days of hostages from our embassy and the inability of us to get 6 flyable helicopters into Iran--your (UGH) sonny should have been for the loss of the good men due to poor defense budgets and lousey leadership as in klinton and Somalia!!!!

Posted by: LES STEPHANY at February 15, 2006 11:50 PM

It is a "new high" unadjusted for inflation. The only times it was higher was WW2, 'Nam and Reagan (ugh) to Bush Sr. Looks to be the highest since '92...which is I believe what Defensetech has stated before in earlier articles.

Posted by: Charles at February 15, 2006 10:17 AM

Hmm. You point to an item with the quote "DOD budget: new high for defense spending... new lows in the quantity of Army divisions, Navy combat ships, and Air Force wings."

Just wondering, but is the author of that report correcting for inflation?

I ran across a set of charts showing defense funding in dollars, constant 2003 dollars, and fraction-of-gdp here:

http://home.comcast.net/~andy_dunn/budget_main.html#national_defense.

Posted by: Phil Fraering at February 14, 2006 5:59 PM

When I turn the age of 18 I want to join the military

Posted by: Wesley Ashby at February 14, 2006 5:20 PM

The cloning article is probably the most interesting and sensible one. You distill hundreds of small factoids and force a person to process them in one gulp, rather than "accruing" the information as battlefield experience. It's the same as using flowcharts to illustrate optimal decision-making, and similar to the sci-fi dream of using hypnopaedia to train people for tasks.

Posted by: Charles at February 14, 2006 3:27 PM