No Favoritism for Army Programs.

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* Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., asked Gen. Mark Milley about his top modernization priorities at the hearing to confirm the general as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Even though Milley spearheaded the push for the Army's top six modernization priorities during his tenure as the service's chief of staff, he didn't say a word about them in his answer.

No. 1 is "the modernization and recapitalization of the nation's nuclear triad--I think that's critical," he said. His second priority is space technology...