Higher mlitary spending or more Blackwaters are on the way. That's the inevitable conclusion from today's "Budget Battles" on nationaljournal.com.

Here's the key point: the increased use of expensive contractors was inevitable given the federal budget politics that encouraged the White House and Capitol Hill to underestimate the military threat to the United States and the forces needed to deal with it so that  lower costs could be projected.

Here's my latest column from nationaljournal.com. 

This morning's "Budget Battles" on nationaljournal.com can be found here.