Service leaders have compiled "wish lists" worth more than $30 billion to buy additional major weaponry -- including combat aircraft, warships, and a full range of tactical ground vehicles -- that are not funded in the Pentagon's fiscal year 2009 budget request or in the forthcoming war cost spending proposals for FY-09. The service chiefs this week completed the delivery of their lists, solicited by Congress, of their unfunded requirements, continuing a ritual begun in 1995 that allows the military...
