Today's Reading Assignment

Prioritizing Patriot...a couple of opinion pieces on the need to continue upgrades to our venerable air defense system, from (Ret) Major General Richard Rowe, writing at The Hill, and Colonel John Venable (USAF, Ret) at National Review on-line.  Both acknowledge the current, austere military procurement environment (and that's an understatement).  But they also emphasize that--even in the sequestration era--keeping the Patriot system updated and viable in a necessity.