A group of defense budget analysts on Wednesday criticized the House Armed Services Committee’s annual defense bill for gutting readiness, putting pork over operations and attempting to circumvent sequestration spending caps. The Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act, set for floor debate in the House next week, shows “how old-fashioned and irrelevant they have made themselves,” Gordon Adams, a professor of international relations at American University and associate director for national security and international affairs at the Office of…
