Americaas Defense Meltdown: Pentagon Reform for President Obama and the New CongressAmerica's Defense Meltdown: Pentagon Reform for President Obama and the New Congress describes how America's armed forces are manned and equipped to fight, at best, enemies that do not now and may never again exist and to combat real enemies ineffectively at high human and material cost. Given that many regard America's military as the best in the world, how can this be? In answer to this question, 13 non partisan Pentagon insiders, retired military