Could it be that Washington has the wrong idea on military spending? The assumption seems to be that the country wants cuts. According to a Gallup commentary released Tuesday, however, there is not “a great deal of pressure from the American people to cut back on military spending.” A poll Gallup conducted earlier this year showed that just 30 percent of Americans believe Washington is spending too much on national defense. The same percentage think the government spends too little. The rest are just lukewarm. Where’s the pressure
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall doesn’t see great value in trying to break the Sentinel ICBM program off as a separate budget item the way the Navy has with its ballistic-missile submarine program, saying such a move wouldn’t create any new money for the Air Force to spend on other…