fixed it.
Much of the defense budget seems to get rerouted to items not properly in their area.
Most recently, the president issued an executive directive demanding military planners consider climate effects during operational planning...
It doesn’t matter if we win in Nov. This all goes away.
If we lose, America goes away.
And America has a billion acres?!?! Shock to this city boy.
Government isn’t spending money efficiently? Shocking.
Defense creates insecurity? a nice new one to add to:
Freedom is Slavery
War is peace.
Up is down
“yet America now has 35 percent fewer combat brigades, 53 percent fewer ships and 63 percent fewer combat air squadrons...”
Pardon my ignorance, but what is the cost of an F35 compared to a P51 mustang in inflation adjusted dollars? It seems to me that maybe we have fewer items but they cost a lot more, even accounting for inflation, and they do a lot more. I thought our doctrine for a long while has been to have the highest tech rather than the greatest numbers.
I could be wrong, not my area of expertise, and I’m sure there is plenty of beaurocratic shenanigans (although those have probably been going on since the Romans figured out how to beat the Carthaginians the first time).
“No bucks, no Buck Rogers” as Caspar Weinberger said.
I spent forty years with DoD in one capacity or another. I agree with most of what the writer says, but I think he misses an important point. He talks about defense spending in constant dollars remaining level over thirty years. But since 1991 where we went to war with a stockpile of Cold War equipment, and especially since 2008, a great deal of equipment has been worn out, destroyed, or simply abandoned in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not just “billion dollar” fighter planes, but Humvees, armored vehicles of all sorts, electric generators, and every other item of equipment needed to fight a war.
Even with the drastic drawdown of personnel from Bathroom Barry’s unilateral disarmament, somewhere a budget plus-up was needed for new equipment just to replace what we lost. In my view, this county is virtually undefended. We just don’t know it yet.
Revolving door corruption. Plain and simple.