General Zer0
Countdown until Zer0 leaves Office: 380 days as of January 6, 2012.
Posted on 01/05/2012 7:25:31 PM PST by jazusamo
Are we to believe that Obama will fight if the Chicoms move on the Spratlys in the S China Sea? Right. The Viets might fight, but Obama won't. Will we defend Formosa?Right. What we have now is the reprise of 1950. A vastly understrength navy and military, relying on technology not manpower and power projection. Then it was the A Bomb, now it's drones. The result then was Korea. 50K American dead and untold numbers of Koreans. My uncle spent 21 months in Manchuria as a guest of the ChiComs. Korea is something that should be mentioned often now.
Speaking of the European way, there might be a surprise from Europe. The NATO treaty doesn't say that the United States is obliged to come to the aid of any other NATO power in the case of an attack - not quite. It says the every NATO signatory country is obliged (or at least heavily encouraged) to come to the aid of any country that's attacked. "An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us."
If the U.S. government guts the U.S. military, that means the other NATO members will have to pick up some slack. So will Canada, of course, but there likely won't be a problem with that. The point I'm making is, so will the NATO members in Europe.
They're going through some budgetary snarls of their own....
bttt
Wonder when the unemployment numbers will go up.
General Zer0
Countdown until Zer0 leaves Office: 380 days as of January 6, 2012.
a niggling little nag at the back of my fuzzy brain keeps goading me into believing this is a cover for any loss caused by repeal of DADT. i.e. if the corrupt CINC changes policy a strategic retreat from the two war policy of the past now—and insists on cutting our forces so finite funding can be redistributed to more entertaining exploits such as advancing the homosexual agenda—or implementing Shariah Law in America
if the Repeal of DADT were to cause any drop in recruiting /retention it would be harder to detect if the forces are ordered cut now.
For some years now, I have been predicting that Europe would return to what worked for them for about a thousand years, hiring mercenary companies instead of having expensive permanent armies.
Today, of course, these would be far more corporate organizations, likely blended with the lessons learned from the French Foreign Legion, as well as working under some sort of recognized international rules.
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