money spent and not enough in the budget is to concave the programs. 400 -- or of buying 80-100 newarines, or bombers, you can buy fewer. but if you are looking at getting in under the bow wave, buying fewer items or truncating programs takes money from the assets. so if you are the person in congress trying to fit the budget in, truncating the programs helps but on the other hand, it is something we do often. the i started working in sierra cover years ago, we were --nning to buy between 1021 21-24 submarines. then it was 18. and now we have 14. so the numbers and the out years change. anybody remember when we planned to buy 132 bombers? and then the president reduced it to 75 until the cold war ended and now it is 21? so truncating the program happens often but it doesn't solve the near-term budget problem. the point i'm trying to make here is that we don't use budget arithmetic. tells theon, when it president what it wants, it is trying to meet a set of requirements. and the requirements determine the size and force of the structure. so even though someone in the arms control committee