Defense Spending Cuts Ahead

The incoming Democratic Congress is unlikely to cut defense spending in the near term, but in five years budgets will come under enormous pressure from a bipartisan force--baby boomers. In 2011, the wave of boomers born 1946-64 will start collecting Social Security and Medicare benefits, straining a...

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