Posted on 07/25/2014 6:33:20 PM PDT by tcrlaf
As American officials fire off diplomatic salvos at Russia in response to that nations purported actual artillery salvos into Ukraine, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said recently that among other actions, the U.S. military is dusting off decades-old plans, just in case.
Were looking inside our own readiness models to look at things that we havent had to look at for 20 years, frankly, about basing and lines of communication and sea lanes, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Americas top military officer, said at the Aspen Security Forum Thursday evening. What the military does when faced with these crises is our job is preparedness, deterrence and readiness.
In addition to its own plans, Dempsey said the U.S. military is having conversations with our NATO allies about increasing their capability and readiness and that theres a very active ongoing process and debate about how best to provide support to Ukraine.
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“They dont need a lot to take Europe. They have what they need.
The key is to keep us out of it. That will keep NATO out because we supply it.”
So what is your concept of the world order ? Let Russia take Europe and then what... ? China takes Asia and they both divide Africa ?
It’s not what I want, It’s what I see.
I don’t have any control over what I see.
That is the best game plan congress has working for themselves. The intent of congress is not to fix problems but instead create more problems. Creates perpetual employment for themselves. The cure/cause and effects of the cure/cause are never studied in any legislation written by congress and if that is not true then one has to wonder are problems written into legislation to continue the perpetual employment for themselves. A problem fixed does not have to be revisited to be re-fixed. Men and Women are flawed. Any legislation written is flawed. But with congress the fix for perpetual employment is to not fix any problem but instead make certain the problem becomes worse. Sorry to rant but these congresscritters always want us to believe they have the answers when actually nobody has the answers, instead everybody has the baseline mind only to create more problems unless legislation is slow and studied and then restudied but congress always moves too quick to understand and read what they have written and then never allows time to comprehend the effects of their written legislation.
It is amazing how little some here remember of the 1980s, when we were so forceful that we actually defeated the Soviets.
Obama will NOT be happy when he gets back. The JCOS are doing this without approval and telling the world that they are doing this so Obama has a much harder time shutting them down.
Also, the military needs to start gaming a war plan against Russia and China because they are likely to move in 2016 or 2017, when we are at our weakest point.
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