The U.S. military all on its own has seldom set its spending priorities. Massive amounts of U.S. military hardware funding is the result of Congressional horse trading over whose constituents are getting military contracts.
TRUE and PURELY military priority takes a back seat to all that.
TRUE and PURELY military priority takes a back seat to all that.
True.
But HOPEFULLY better than the old five-year plan?
‘Even so, Coast Guard commanders and allies in Congress say the U.S. will need more icebreakers as climate change reshapes the polar regions. Enough ice has melted to open Arctic shipping lanes — at least seasonally — as well as areas that hold rare-earth metals and perhaps a quarter of the earth’s undiscovered oil and gas.’
So, according to this paragraph, you need more ice breakers because global warming has melted ice creating Arctic shipping lanes. Got it.