Posted on 08/06/2013 3:41:20 PM PDT by Nachum
The recommendations in the Department of Defense’s latest strategic review would produce both a hollow and aging military unable to engage in simultaneous conflicts involving U.S. interests, defense budget experts said Tuesday.
The experts spoke at the Brookings Institution about the Pentagon’s efforts to prepare for $500 billion in spending cuts during the next decade due to budget sequestration.
Mackenzie Eaglen, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, noted that the sequestration cuts come on the heels of about $1 trillion in military spending reductions already enacted under President Barack Obama’s administration.
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel discussed the so-called “Strategic Choices and Management Review,” the Pentagon’s options for responding to the cuts, at the end of last month.
Eaglen and Brookings research director Michael O’Hanlon said Hagel presented a bleak outlook for the future of the military, including smaller forces, delayed equipment upgrades, and minimal training sessions.
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Obama loves it when a plan comes together.
Bring on the militarized walkers and wheelchairs!
Isn’t this what they really want?
We haven’t fought a war to actually win since what, WWII?
This has been a trend for a long time. Our nukes are 40 years old, we have B-52s which have had crew members serving on the same planes their fathers did in Vietnam, etc.
Reagan’s buildup helped, but notice how many projects got rolled back, cut, or suspended.
Obama simply went from putting band aids on the problem to giving it no attention so he can waste billions on social engineering.
“Aging, Hollow Military”
Exactly Obama’s objective!
It’s the retro 1970’s.
If the military was hard core liberal-democrat group (like unions) this would not be happening...
Well, if one is inclined to worry about the US military being dispatched against American citizens, this may not be a bad thing.
We still have our secret weapon........university professors. They can bore anyone to death.
It seems that too many chiefs (and chief-ettes) want to see jobs only in offices these days. They see few physical realities with which to interact with the world around us.
Good. Cut the whole thing in half. No guns for government.
All by design, Comrade. All. By. Design.
I loved my many years in the Army; I miss Army Life every day...but I cannot believe how our military has been decimated.
Makes my head AND my heart hurt...
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