2005 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 27 Sep 2005 22:19:34 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] "BRAC Failed Capacity, Financial Goals"
 
BRAC Failed Capacity, Financial Goals

Commentary by Lawrence J. Korb
Center for Defense Information
September 27, 2005	


This commentary first appeared in the Sept. 26 edition of Defense News.


For the last decade, the Pentagon has been complaining that keeping excess bases open is costing the military and the taxpayers at least $10 billion a year. Since taking office, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been arguing that the Congress needed to reauthorize another realignment and closure process so he could eliminate about 100 major bases, or about 25 percent of the Defense Department’s base structure.

Given the fact that four previous rounds of base closures closed 97 major bases, restructured another 55, has saved $40 billion and continues to save $7.3 billion annually, these estimates seem plausible.

Yet this year, when a reluctant Congress finally allowed another round of base closures, the results fell far short of expectations. Why? Although some blame politics, the fact is Rumsfeld and his staff mismanaged the process.

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For the entire commentary, see
http://www.cdi.org/program/document.cfm?DocumentID=3159&StartRow=1&ListRows=10&appendURL=&Orderby=D.DateLastUpdated&ProgramID=37&from_page=index.cfm


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