''Eisenhower’s nightmare''

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"Arizona Sen. John McCain on Thursday unleashed a blistering attack against the “military-industrial-congressional complex,” leaving no service and almost no major program out of a broadside that excoriated today’s acquisitions environment.

The top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee called the F-35 “a mess” — having already called it “a scandal” and “a national tragedy;” he lamented “significant problems” with the Marines’ late Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle; he regretted the “great expectations and enormous costs” of the V-22 Osprey; and declared that “military space procurement programs are among the most notorious for chronically performing poorly.”