#GLM!
Posted on 08/17/2016 5:36:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The fight against the Islamic State may get the headlines. But it’s the military threats from Russia and China that most worry top Pentagon officials — and are driving a new arms race to deter these great-power rivals.
This question of how to deal with Russian and Chinese military advances has gotten almost no attention in the 2016 presidential campaign. But it deserves a careful look. The programs begun in the waning days of the Obama administration could potentially change the face of warfare, in the United States’ favor, but they would require political support and new spending by the next president.
A drive to build exotic versions of conventional weapons may sound crazy in a world that already has too much military conflict. But advocates argue that strengthening U.S. conventional forces might be the only way to avoid escalation to nuclear weapons if war with Moscow or Beijing began....
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Good catch. And you're right, the democRATS priority is anywhere else BUT the United States.
A queer one?
With the development of nuclear weapons, delivery systems, and an aggressive strategy by the Soviets, the US resolved to avoid the need for nuclear war by maintaining its conventional military forces and not getting caught unprepared. This more or less continued for the next five decades and led to victory in the Cold War.
Having an edge in military technology and weapons systems is an important element of US national strength. Such advantages help to deter adversaries and strengthen our alliance system. In the international marketplace, American weapons are the most expensive but also the most effective and reliable.
In consequence, the side with American weapons, American military technology, and American support usually wins. When the right kind of people are in charge, that helps make the US a preferred ally and a feared enemy.
And yet America’s greatest threat remains political/social rot from the inside.
For reference, the instructor of the course I mentioned was a P-51 instructor in WW2, was the 3rd pilot hired by United Airlines when they began operation in the '30s, flew everything along the way from the DC-3 to the DC-10 in which he retired as captain, and he personally knew a slew of aviation legends along the way, including Lindbergh, Sikorsky, etc. He had well over 30,000 flight hours when he retired. He was unequivocal in his opinion that we entered both world wars, as well as to a lesser extent Korea unprepared because we always draw back down too far in between.
Other instructors in the aviation program I was in included a former B-52 commander who flew numerous nuclear weapons test missions in the South Pacific, several Air Force and Marine Corps colonels, some of whom flew in combat in Vietnam and one who recited his experience sitting in an A-4 Skyhawk on a carrier deck, ready to launch loaded with nerve gas bombs and aimed at Cuba, during the Cuban missile crisis. All of them held similar opinions that we have a tendency to relax our defense posture far too much during "peacetime", only to be unprepared when the next war hits.
Can you imagine the type of soldier that would be in an army with SHRILLARY! as CIC?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The entire upper echelons of US military command would be filled with LGBT and gay military staff who are also mostly racial minorities.
Every ship in the US Navy would become the USS Fellatio.
The entire military would be ruled by political correctness as measured by Hillary’s foot rather than the laws of the People and the Constitution.
America as we know it would cease to exist, no more freedom, only enslavement of the citizens.The light of the world would be extinguished.
Sounds like old Neville, while Putin has just done what real liberals would love to do to Christians:
Russia's Newest Law: No Evangelizing Outside of Church | Gleanings ...
Thousands fast after Putin signs law banning evangelism outside of ...
Which means that the state Russian Orthodox church now has even more power to deal with its competition. A return to the "good ol days." C h e k i s t s i n C a s s o c k s : T h e O r t h o d o x C h u r c h a n d t h e K G B
Very interesting article
Possibly because NAA was allowed to get on with it without every officer on the procurement board inserting his own "requirements", and without the requirement that there be a supplier or subcontractor in every Congressional district.
Spiffy. Looks almost like my Ruger MKIII Target pistol. Just what the heck is that?
Oh?
Just when WERE we?
Maybe not; but it's a darned good start!
2 Chronicles 7:14
If my people, who are called by my name,
shall humble themselves,
and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; ,
then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin,
and will heal their land.
Washington Naval Treaty
Showing the Japanese how to Use an AircraftCarrer and a surprise air attack in a War-Game against the Panama Canal
August 1945?
Psalm 20:7
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses:
but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
We could win any war no matter what disadvantages we started with - except for leadership.
And our leaders have stupid ideas about rules for wars that effectively mean we can’t win.
So, no matter what advantages we DO have, we won’t win.
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