"China and India are, in the Air Force's eyes, the 21st century equivalent of the Soviet Union, requiring billions in new aircraft that even a hawkish Republican President doesn't think are needed..." - that is supposed to be unbiased reporting?
For the record, I think we do need the F-22, and we ARE wearing out jets flying them at a heavy rate in Afghanistan, Iraq and over the USA.
I've argued for years that we needed to increase the Army and Marines, but we have also known for 20 years that we would hit a procurement crunch in the Air Force at this time. And for the record, the arguments used against the F-22/F-35 were all also used against the F-15/16...that we could just keep going using the F-4 (admittedly, the greatest aircraft ever conceived by man - if you assume the blueprints weren't handed to M-D on stone tablets).
Factually incorrect on all counts. Curious how the same Political Left that never was bothered by Billy Clinton sending much worse equipped, grossly underfund over deployed troops all the place in the 1990s on mission of utterly no value to the USA National Interest now weep crocodile tears about our "overstretched military forces"
Using the "logic" we should never deploy our military anywhere because it would "wear out the gear, and over stretch the troops".
Nice trite propaganda slogan from so called "Journalists", to bad it would be moronically suicidal as national policy.
Unfortunately, the United States Military, like the rest of government, is riddled with bureaucracy and waste. Among other things, I order parts for C-130’s and you would be shocked at how the simplest thing could cost thousands of dollars. There is so much that can be done to limit waste and allow more funds for more equipment.
Uhhh, aren’t we off-shoring all our jobs to India and China? Isn’t India supposed to be an ally?
I can understand the hesitation to buy air superiority fighters given the immediate needs of our men on the ground.
Time magazine breathlessly wrings its hands over a $31 billion dollar request to help fund our military. defense of this nation is the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT JOB entrusted to our government, and our military is the way through which we keep America and her allies free nations.
I wonder how they stand on the $845 billion Global Poverty Act? That’s a bill sponsored by Barack Obama that would force the United States to give AN EXTRA $65 BILLION PER YEAR over what it already gives... and would put that money under the control of the United Nations.
I’ll bet I can guess.