Congress Vs Defense Change

In the opinion of many Americans, including myself, Congress hasn't been doing all thats expected of it lately. Part of this is old fashioned partisan politcs, but mainly plain old stubborness and resistence to reform. Take the Quadrennial Defense Review, upcoming in a few months. People on the Hill are trying to interfere with the process to save pet projects. From GovExec:

Months before the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review is slated to be released... members of Congress are preparing a rebuttal. In late September, the House Armed Services Committee unveiled its plans for a comprehensive, bipartisan Committee Defense Review.

But change is vital for a new era of warfare:

Andrew F. Krepinevich, executive director of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, told the committee, "Twenty years from now, we should look back and find that the 2005 QDR represented the most important and far-reaching review of our military posture since the early days of the Cold War."
The reasons are obvious, he said. Since the last QDR was released in early 2001, New York and Washington were attacked by radical Islamists and the United States invaded and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq, launching what promises to be a protracted "global war on terrorism," and witnessed the spread of nuclear weapons and the growth of China's military capabilities.