A Hollow Millitary? Well they are pretty scary:
They are a pretty mean looking bunch....
Oh, they mean Hollowing out the Millitary.... To heck with that.
Posted on 01/10/2012 8:31:58 AM PST by IbJensen
If the President and the Congress are able to realize their plans for the US military, it will leave American with, as the title to this piece suggests, a hollow force. It will also place America in a great deal of danger because our military will be a great deal smaller in numbers of troops.
Think about that for a moment. Not only will our military lose so much of its war fighting materiel, it will lose many thousands of troops. That’s bad enough but there is something else -- and no one seems concerned about it.·
You see, when the military cutbacks come, we will lose the experience of troops who have actually been on the battlefield, who have actually looked the enemy in the eye, who have dealt with the pain of taking another human being’s life, and the deep abiding pain of losing a friend or companion in battle, who have fought the fight and lived to tell about it. BUT – they will not be available to train the raw recruits that will always be necessary to keep the much smaller fighting force flush with young, robust, well-trained fighting men.·
Everything, these days, seems to have a price in dollars and cents. Not experience. The value of experienced combat soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines is inestimable. It also holds true, not just for enlistees, but for officers as well -- mustangs and academy graduates, alike. Experienced officers are a must for a military to even consider executing a victorious military campaign. Book knowledge is absolutely necessary but it can’t hold a candle to experience on the battlefield.·
We are looking at the creation of a hollow force IF congress does not apply the brakes, one way, or the other, to stop what will amount to decimation of the US military.·
You may recall that “decimation” is a word derived from the Latin word “decimatio.” It means, literally: “removal of a tenth.” You see, the Romans would punish troops for cowardice by placing them in formation and then executing every tenth man. Of course, the practice of decimation did not last long before some Roman commanders began to notice their troop strength was suffering badly from their own actions as well as that of the enemy.·
In my opinion, the word “decimation” is applicable to what our government is about to do to our military.·
Those who have been paying attention to the encroaching chaos in the world, especially in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, are extremely concerned that only a spark is needed to bring on a global conflict far worse than we experienced in the 1930’s and 1940’s. We are, of course, referencing multiple tactical and strategic use(s) of nuclear weapons. Everyone on the face of our planet will be involved, one-way, or the other.·
If the US were blessed with forward-thinking leaders, we would be building up our armed forces in preparation for the coming conflagration, which, experts seem to agree, is expected in the very near future. Unfortunately, we are NOT blessed with leaders who understand that history did not begin on the day they were born.·
Rather than cutting the US military, the US “standing Army” should be doubled. Our Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corp also need to be doubled in strength… and as quickly as possible. When the next war comes, it won’t be fought from 15,000 feet with smart bombs, as we did in the Balkans. It will be a slugfest in the air, on the sea, and on the land. It will not be contained in a particular geographical region. There is a strong likelihood that the continental US will be hit. It is fairly easy for missiles launched from ships, lying off shore in international waters, to burst through our radar defenses and strike targets before we can react to stop them. That is an uneasy reality.·
Unfortunately for what we used to call “the free world,” Mr. Obama’s penchant for leading from behind, simply opened the door for any and all mischief makers, anywhere on the globe, to come out and play. Many have and many more will·
It seems to this scribe, the US needs a crash program, right now; to build our military might to that state of readiness that we reached in the midst of the Second World War. It is unrealistic today (with nuclear armed rogue nations) to allow one of them to get in the first punch. No nation can absorb many nuclear first strikes.·
It is more than a little worrisome that the Congress and the President do not seem to share the concern of our military that we will not be prepared when the next attack on the US comes.·
If history has taught us anything it is that when the world becomes so stressed-out, especially over the imminent collapse of the global financial system, war is next to inevitable. Yet, the current leadership in Washington is seriously preparing to reduce our military, substantially.·
This is no time for a hollow military. Reliance on super electronic weapons is no longer a guarantee of victory. A single electro-magnetic pulse weapons can make them all totally useless in the blink of an eye and pull the teeth of the tiger instantaneously. But those powerful EMP weapons cannot stop the ultimate weapon – a determined American military man. And THAT is the very weapon of which, we will be in dire need when the first shots are fired in a future war.·
We have seen the US military gutted many times in the past only to find we have to pay for that mistake in the blood of our under-trained and under-equipped soldiers in the first stages of the very next war. Understand: there will always be a “next war.”·
The US government has done some dumb things. But decimating our military, with the world in the mess it is today, ranks among the dumbest.·
Pedestalizing the perverts of America as a sort of 'protected class' is as evil and stupid as it can be!
Keep it up, central socialist government and you'll be extinct! Making DC look like 1936 Madrid is a huge mistake and don't try wrapping your putrid bodies in the Constitution. You've used it as toilet paper and thanks to your ignorance you've made it irrelevant.
Bring on a Francisco Franco or an Augusto Pinochet!
The elite political class, as I have stated, has used the Constitution as toilet paper, removed God from everything they can in order to elevate Islam and the homosexual agenda. They’ve used the military as a sort of laboratory to shove homosexuals and other privileged perverts into the ranks and, in general, have destroyed America.
The only thing that can save this nation from peril is to roll back everything that has been enacted since 1913 and proceed from that point.
I had an entirely different slate for the nation come January, 2013, but it will never come to pass: Jim Demint for president, Ron Paul for Treasury Secretary, Joe Apaio for AG and I haven’t made up my mind who should be appointed Secretary of State.
Care to clarify?
John Bolton would be a fabulous SoS.
But the lesson is that we're on that same bitter path right now.
That sad part is... most Americans have no clue as to why hollowing out our military is a bad thing. God help us if China decides to make an aggressive move in Asia.
The author appears to think that obama and our other “leaders” are being short sighted here.
They are NOT.
The dire consequences that the author describes are EXACTLY what these scum WANT!!!
Agree!
We are incapable of protecting our own country thanks to the current central socialist government, which includes not only the 850 occupants of the White Hut, but the complicit Congress and their staffers as well!
Get the queers out of the military and fire all the political generals. Promote to the general staff from the lower ranks provided they are true to the Constitution and will honor their oath of office which many in the military and government fail to do!
Only use uniformed military personnel to staff all offices in the Pentagon and all branches of the military and put the women where they belong: either in administrative or medical positions. Any nation that puts its women (lesbian or not) into combat situations isn’t fit to be defended!
Until America gets back to pre-1913 size and scope and the military cleanses itself of corrupt political officers and muslims lurking in the ranks this nation will not be fit to live in.
A Hollow Millitary? Well they are pretty scary:
They are a pretty mean looking bunch....
Oh, they mean Hollowing out the Millitary.... To heck with that.
And yet another thing:
Unknown to most Americans is that at present there are 95 plots of land located in the CONUS that are being, or are to be used, as basic training camps for islamic terrorists. The poor, pathetic excuse we have for AG no doubt is aware of this, but as a eunuch serving a a bi-sexual muslim he no doubt sees nothing wrong with this.
Get rid of these rats before they get rid of a lot of us!
Realistically speaking, the US military in its current form is a fluke, and one that is unsustainably expensive.
But the illusion that size equates to capability is a 19th-20th Century fallacy. Here are some military facts:
1) Combat support and combat service support personnel outnumber combat forces by a ratio of about 15:1. While some of these are mission essential, a great number are not. The future for much of this is by subcontracting many of these functions to private companies.
2) The US currently deploys personnel to 100 countries, while "serious", militarily important deployments are in about a dozen. The other 88 should be evaluated with an eye to being discontinued as frivolous.
3) It is egregiously expensive to encourage or permit military families to accompany personnel in foreign deployments. This anchor also makes them less mission flexible, and less able for those forces to end those deployments.
4) The US military had an effective "frequent transfer and 'up or out'" policy during the Cold War, that enabled the creation of an enormous inactive reserve component. However, 'remain in regiment' military career tracks are far less expensive, and in some ways result in more effective unit function.
5) Using highly trained and expensively equipped US forces for unimportant, low intensity, "guard duty" missions is not cost effective. Again, while technically 'combat' operations, so little fighting happens that these missions, as well as humanitarian aid missions, can and should be subcontracted.
6) Military technology has progressed so far as to result in imbalance in the prerogative of "quality vs. quantity", which, in either direction, creates vulnerability. That is, one extremely expensive, high tech aircraft cannot beat 100 inexpensive, lower tech aircraft in a fight. It just can't. The same rule applies to ships and boats.
The current budget
Components--Funding--Change, 2009 to 2010
Ops & Maint--$283.3 billion-- +4.2% Personnel--$154.2 billion-- +5.0% Procurement--$140.1 billion-- −1.8% R&D, Test&Eval--$79.1 billion-- +1.3% Mil Construction--$23.9 billion-- +19.0% Family Housing--$3.1 billion-- −20.2%
Total Spending--$683.7 billion-- +3.0%
This is not possible. Just the other day, Obama promised we would not repeat the post-war mistakes of the past. He is much, much smarter than that! (Do I HAVE to “/s?”)
(One more time, for the table only)
Components--Funding--Change, 2009 to 2010
Ops & Maint--$283.3 billion-- +4.2%
Personnel--$154.2 billion-- +5.0%
Procurement--$140.1 billion-- −1.8%
R&D, Test&Eval--$79.1 billion-- +1.3%
Mil Construction--$23.9 billion-- +19.0%
Family Housing--$3.1 billion-- −20.2%
Total Spending--$683.7 billion-- +3.0%
We should have enough on the ground to deter it in the first place. You OK with surrendering the whole of Asia to the PLA?
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