Encouraged by the Pentagon's No. 2 official to submit spending requests for all activities related to the U.S. military's counter-terror war, the military departments are tallying up new needs that will require more than $100 billion in additional fiscal year 2007 spending, according to Defense Department officials. These needs are on top of the $70 billion "bridge supplemental" fund included in the FY-07 Defense Appropriations Act. Pentagon officials said the Army, which is bearing the brunt of ground operations in...
