Its basically worthless unless you are willing to use it and the world knows it.
Our budget may be larger but a huge share of it is wasted on political pandering. In FCS I figured only a tiny percentage of each dollar went to buying hardware or software. The rest went to overhead and insanely wasteful political agendas. (Two integrators of integrators each spending 30% on overhead, each subcontractor spent 30% on overhead. Start with one dollar. Reduce it by the overhead of the two top companies. You have .40 left. Then give that .40 to a sub and .28 cents left. Now pile on the agenda spending...small business set asides, diversity, etc.)
‘Easily defended island’
Unless you reduce your military to Dad’s Army and then see Russian bombers ‘mistakenly’ invading your airspace on a frequent basis.
The United States and NATO is an awesome military force.
Putin’s one year draftees, and his lack of effective Air and Navy, and the Russia’s lack of ability to support and maintain a large, or sustained invasion, puts NATO in a great defensive position, as long as we don’t allow Putin to keep rebuilding the Soviet empire.
another interesting side note,,,,If you took only the number of deer hunting licenses issued in the state of ohio and assumed 1 rifle per license,and 1 person per rifle.Ohio by itself ranks as the 3rd largest standing army in the world.If you include PA,WV,and Michigan,they rand number 1.If you include every state in the united states the number is 10 times larger than the largest army in the world.Most of the hunters use camo,have experience in shooting from long distance,are used to adverse conditions,and have military experience.And Obama wants to takes whos guns?
bfl
Turkey “Has ISIS on its doorstep” when they are not living in the spare bedroom.