Defense Secretary Dick Cheney demonstrated this principle in spectacular fashion at the end of the Cold War when he managed to kill a hundred major programs everything from the Abramstank to the Seawolf submarine to the B-2 bomber during a four-year run at the Pentagon.
Dick Cheney, defense secretary of the outgoing administration, had done most of the dirty work of cutting military technology outlays by killing a hundred major weapons programs everything from the Seawolf submarine to the Abramstank to the B-2 bomber so what Clinton inherited was just the stuff everybody agreed was really needed for the future.