49 Quotes by Loren Thompson

There has been a lot of talk about the appropriate head count for the National Guard. But the actual number of National Guard soldiers is far less important than how well-equipped each of those soldiers is.

The government should never have tried to develop one system to meet the very different needs of the Army and Navy.

You have to wonder where the Army thinks it's going after Iraq.

What happened here is that the technology enthusiasts got far beyond what the laws of physics would allow.

Cutting that much money from the program clearly foreshadows either program termination or a long delay and major restructuring.

Cutting-edge military technology today is very similar to cutting-edge commercial technology. It's not clear we can control any of these dual-use technologies to stop them from reaching enemy hands.

There's going to be big cuts in the spacecraft program.

The sad thing is that in the effort to demonstrate that it is being diligent, the agency is undermining popular support for any manned spaceflight. It enforces the public's apprehension of human spaceflight.

Rumsfeld will have been so weakened by this process that as the election approaches the White House will signal that his resignation wouldn't be unwelcome.