What I'm saying is that getting hyper-concerned about money will constrain your ability to prepare for war.

Hopefully no war happens of course, but being effective with resources is actually super important. If it turns out we've dumped 25 years of spending on hardware that makes no sense, and executed inefficiently on top of that... it's not good. That's a ton of wasted opportunity cost whatever your commitment level.

Perhaps we should give the folks in the basement a bit more influence in the goings on round here in defense spending.