Could it be that Washington has the wrong idea on military spending? The assumption seems to be that the country wants cuts. According to a Gallup commentary released Tuesday, however, there is not “a great deal of pressure from the American people to cut back on military spending.” A poll Gallup conducted earlier this year showed that just 30 percent of Americans believe Washington is spending too much on national defense. The same percentage think the government spends too little. The rest are just lukewarm. Where’s the pressure
DARPA Changing Directors Again in Third Recent Shuffle
Jan. 21, 2021
The Biden administration is reportedly tapping Stefanie Tompkins to run the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, spurring the third leadership change at the secretive Pentagon organization since January 2020. Defense One first reported Tompkins’s “pre-decisional” appointment to the post on Jan. 19. The White House did not respond to a…