And that could mean more contracting dollars for small businesses. There is pressure for reconstitution of the industrial base at the prime level and the subcontractor level. The question is whether the political process will move in a direction that we at the Heritage Foundation would recommend. Heritage advocates a complete rethinking of military policy. Other issues to be dealt with in the final book, scheduled for publication in its entirety in January, include health care, education and Social Security.
Equipment is outdated and deployments have increased sixteen-fold.
That, he says, is a formula for disaster. Launch a new security strategy. Instead of being prepared to fight two regional conflicts at one time, the military needs to decrease its readiness to one major conflict and one minor conflict. The Heritage report argues that U.S. military equipment has not advanced much in 20 years. More funding for research and development would help rectify that.