House proposals to retain vintage Navy battleships and aging Air Force aircraft are prompting outright opposition from the Defense Department, but the House and Senate's combined support for expanding the Army's size is forcing DOD to reluctantly come to terms with the idea, according to Pentagon documents. The Bush administration's fiscal year 2007 budget request sought an Army end strength of 482,400 troops, but both the House and the Senate approved versions of the FY-07 defense authorization bill that would...
