Zakaria asks a good question

In the 4/12 Washington Post, Fareed Zakaria had a column discussing Secretary Gates's proposed military budget. He points out that our military spending in recent years has taken place "...in a dreamland, where ever more elaborate weapons are built without regard to enemies, costs, or trade-offs." True, that.
He notes that a lot of the military budget "...is based on wish lists from the services, which are often lists that were conceived during the Cold War." Also true, that.
He makes note of the fact that the supposed aircraft carrier cut will not really be carried out until 2030. Okay...
And he also raises a very good question, one that most commentators seem to have missed in all the uproar raised by F-22 supporters--and definitely a point Congress should consider:
“...while we don't need the F-22, we are still going to make 2,443 F-35s at an eventual cost of $1 trillion. Do we really need those? What is the thinking behind the size of that program?”
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/fareed_zakaria/2009/04/a_military_for_the_real_world.html