The Pentagon's shortage of new all-weather weapons is not the result of military miscalculations, but rather the fallout from government-wide budget choices that were made five or more years ago, say senior U.S. Air Force leaders. "We did not have some of our newest and most capable weapons at their highest rate of procurement at a time when we found them to be very useful and when our models identified them as the preferred weapon," agreed Lt. Gen. Gregory Martin, the Air Force's senior military acquisition official.
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