The Defense Department's ability to effectively modernize its strategic capabilities is hampered by an incomplete long-range budget picture. That's the assessment of congressional investigators, who argue in a new report that the Pentagon overlooks $156 billion in programs essential to its "new triad" concept for improving nuclear forces. "Delaying the preparation of a long-term investment approach puts DOD at risk of not developing an affordable strategy," states the General Accountability Office in a new report. The report, "Military Transformation: Actions...
