Posted on 09/01/2013 4:45:04 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Barack Obama spoke at the Pentagon yesterday concerning a major downsizing of the U.S. military...Obama spoke about cuts to military budget and changes to our overall military strategy. Facing almost $500 Billion dollars in spending cuts over the next ten years, drastic reductions in our forces are coming. Obama is tossing out 70 years of doctrine which recognizes that we need a military capable of fighting a Two-Ocean War...
Now, before you roll your eyes and think that I am just going to beat up on Obama, I will point out that he is actually basing his plan on one floated by former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2004 with the approval of then President George W. Bush....Critics of Rumsfeld will cite the small footprint we initially used in Afghanistan and even later when we invaded Iraq.
A major argument that Obama and his administration is resting upon is that the era of the large Land War is over.... They never throw anything away....
But in the last dozen years, the art of warfare has been changing. The development of GPS-guided munitions has radically changed our offensive capabilities since Gulf War I. In many respects, nuclear weapons are now obsolete, even in their role as deterrence. While using a nuke as in a counter-force mission in an extreme case is still a remote option, most of the bad guys with a brain are more worried today about a smart bomb or missile that can be deployed miles away and hit them within three feet...
(Excerpt) Read more at rightpundits.com ...
Problems in Europe? uh oh. where to go, what to do?
South American invasion? Well, we know Obama never really cared if that happened anyway, right?
Our next president needs to spark the economy, and rebuild our military as Reagan did. We can do away the Homeland Gestapo and labeling patriots terrorists.
We can cut about 50% of our federal workforce with little effort. Just start whacking away.
I’d give all but the most desperate welfare recipients twenty-four months to find gainful employment. I’d reduce payouts by a little over 4.166% per month until 100% had been eliminated over two years.
Some of this would be diverted to the military, and the rest would go to pay down the national debt.
Tax incentives on businesses would be the operative word. Corporate taxes would be slashed.
I would also begin work on a replacement plan for retirement and medical care for retirees that would replace what we have starting immediately, and to be phased in over 40 years. Sound like too long a time, but within 20 years our massive SS funds would be paying out less than half what it is today.
People would have their own plans, large savings acounts. Cool!
You know, chicken sh*t is a white splat with a dark center.
Looks like the commander in chief fits the definition.
There shouldn't be any problem in Europe that we need to address - Putin is having too much success to need to resort to tanks.
And do we really want to get caught up in a ground war in South America - no one is going to say 'thank you' even if we won. Korea is the greatest threat, China needs to be contained but we can't match them militarily (or even in space these days - they have a manned launch capability and we don't). If we don't plan to win in Afghanistan, we need to pull out and let them kill each other.
Sorry, have to disagree.
A one-front war is only a stepping stone for him, to get to his real agenda objective: Downsizing the military to a Zero-Front War (Ø-Front War).
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We shouldn't be in Syria to begin with.
Problems in Europe? uh oh. where to go, what to do?
If a problem flares up in Europe that Europe can't handle then it's because all the NATO countries have been busy disarming themselves for the past 20 years. Where is that our responsibility?
South American invasion? Well, we know Obama never really cared if that happened anyway, right?
Invasion by whom?
This is also the Ron Paul military.
Still gonna roll my eyes.
With popular anti-defense sentiment as it is, we’re looking at some big ugly defense spending cuts pretty soon.
Well you have to look at what his administration said in March 2011 when sec of state Clinton stated that Assad was a reformer. Is she ready to be the President in 2016? I think not.
Kerry is also quoted in the article.
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