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Gates Again Criticizes DoD Bureaucracy for Emphasis on High-End Weapon Buys

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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

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By Marina Malenic The U.S. military and its industrial base must become more responsive to the basic equipping needs of current, low-intensity conflicts instead of building more complex and expensive weapon systems for a war that may never come, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said this week. "I have expressed frustration over the defense bureaucracy's priorities and lack of urgency when it came to the current conflicts--that for too many in the Pentagon it has been business as usual, as opposed…

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