What will the Pentagon need that it doesn't already have?

The Pentagon doesn't need to maintain even current manpower levels.

The Pentagon will need a new such plane some time in the next century.

Plenty of good reasons can always be found for keeping open military bases the Pentagon no longer needs.

The Pentagon needs to work out many details about the added planes, including where to base them.

Military leaders say the Pentagon needs more money to insure national security.

But the Pentagon also needs to be planning for the longer term.

Foreign sales are often used to keep open production lines of weapons that the Pentagon needs only in small numbers.

One area where the Pentagon needs more money is for pay raises.

That is the only way to find out how much the Pentagon really needs to do its job.