Tough choices.

MILITARY policy; UNITED States armed forces appropriations & expenditures; GOVERNMENT spending policy; BALLISTIC missile defenses

Discusses efforts of United States President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to make changes in the Pentagon, the government's sprawling bureaucracy. Possibility he will cut some of the Pentagon's favorite weapons to pay for more futuristic technology or the national missile defense system; How threats to cut aircraft such as the Stealth F-22 could pit the White House against military service chiefs and provoke members of Congress; Speculation on weapons that could be cut or saved.