Posted on 04/23/2021 2:42:00 AM PDT by USAF1985
The U.S. military needs to wake up to the fact that global dominance is no longer a viable strategy for national defense, because pursuing that unrealizable goal is making the country less safe, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said April 22...
"I want the Pentagon to feel some measure of physical pain every time they spend a dollar. And I want them to just make sure that they do it in the most cost effective, intelligent way because they just want to get the most out of it, not because they know Congress will always come along and just throw them a bunch more money and paper over the problem.”
That’s rich. A house member talking about doing things the most cost effective way. Idiot.
The U.S. needs to wake up to the fact that global welfare is no longer a viable strategy to feed the poor.
They never care about cost when it concerns welfare handouts.
Prelude to a drastic slashing of the military budget in order to pay for Xiden’s “infrastructure” bill, along with raising the Capitol Gains tax to over 46%. Some sacrifices have to be made for the Greater Good.
I spent nearly my entire 30-year USAF career wondering why the Osprey and JSF programs were allowed to overspend by trillions of dollars when we had a hard time making it to 30 Sep on the scaled-down budgets we were required to submit each year. “Doing more with less” justified the inevitable demand to do everything with nothing.
Colonel, USAF (Ret)
Holy $#!+.
“Global dominance?” Who are the editors letting this stuff go? I had no idea we “dominate” the globe... No wonder so many other countries don’t like us... Blah blah blah.
We have to keep the research and development going. As long as we have the technological edge, China and Russia will continue to hold “exercises” rather than invasions. It’s expensive, and we can alternate cuts and increases as the political winds blow out of Washington. The argument doesn’t have to start out with us as a global hegemonic super-DUPER power.
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