, The heralded “transformation” of the U.S. armed forces into a streamlined, computerized, unified fighting force is dead — or at least delayed — leading defense analysts said this week.
Instead, the Pentagon is facing up to the much more urgent task of repairing and replacing traditional military hardware being ground down in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Military transformation has turned into a bad joke,” said defense analyst Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute, who spoke at the Reuters Aerospace and Defense Summit in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 6.
“Transformation was supposed to be Donald Rumsfeld
