Les Gelb, a veteran journalist and former Pentagon official, suggests that the generals have more faith in Republican politicians to issue clear orders and stay the course when wars turn sour.

莱吉尔波是一名有经验的记者兼前五角大楼官员，他建议道，大众更加相信共和党的政客发布清晰的命令，在战争变得令人失望时会坚持到底。

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For decades, the Pentagon prepped itself for a straightforward set of superpower wars because... well, those were the battles the us knew how to prepare for.

几十年来，五角大楼自己径直以超级大国战争为背景做好准备，因为…好吧，那些交战美国知道如何准备。

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While Donald Rumsfeld was revamping the Pentagon and masterminding wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Mr Snow was ushered forth only to explain away the lacklustre economy and talk about tax cuts.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Hit by rising suicide rates in the wake of two long wars, the Pentagon has suddenly become a prime mover in researching treatments for the suicidal.

FORBES: The Military's Fight Against Soldier Suicides

The law does not include cuts in funding for overseas wars, which is handled outside the regular Pentagon budget, but those outlays were already programmed to decline rapidly as the U.S. exits Iraq and Afghanistan.

FORBES: Defense Cuts Could Destroy A Million Jobs