[Darteaus94025]

The US armed forces need to focus on Muslim outreach, cultural diversity, limiting Christianity and integration of women into combat roles.

Only then will US influence be sufficiently degraded for the haters of the West (Obama, Jarrett, China, Iran, Putin, etc.) to be able to forcefully exert their power on the world stage.

[dp0622]

so what’s the verdict?

Could we whip Russia or China right now or no?

[Fraxinus]

Failure to equip a new aircraft with an appropriate weapon system has always been a uniquely American blind-spot.

While I think the author has a point I think he protests too much with this line. It is good to have weapons development and air frame development to be done by completely separate teams, and for a new weapon to be dependent and a new air frame. At the same time the British waited untill well into WWII to up gun their planes from .30 to .50 machineguns. The US was arming all new aircraft with Ma Deuce from ~1936 untill well after it was shown to be inadequate ~1950. The Brits were using 20MM machine guns in some Spitfires before the end of WWII

[Blood of Tyrants]

Gotta have more money for Obamaphones.

[Southack]

These sorts of crap articles get pushed every time some hawk wants a budget increase.

You can always tell the fake ones from genuine because the fake articles for $$ always...always offer bi-partisan criticism so as to not “offend” any 1 group of Congressional votes.

[blueunicorn6]

It’s a good thing the Democrats used that Peace Dividend from the 90s to fix all our problems.

You know, problems like Democrats without Hawaiian condos.

[SkyPilot]

During WW II, we could design, manufacture, and field weapons with alarming speed.

For example, the P-51 went from drawing on a napkin to a flying prototype in 102 days.

This cannot occur today. It take years, sometimes decades, to field weapons systems.

Wars are "come as you are."

If war breaks out with Russia, China, or Iran, we are more than screwed. Years of deep budget cuts, with Sequestration on top of those cuts, have made our military readiness a disaster waiting to happen.

Add morale killing policies and using the military as a Marxist social experiment, and the next conflict will become a bloody mess in very short order.

Nothing is being done to correct the problem - we are in 5th gear at 90 mph and heading straight for the brick wall.

[zzwhale]

yes they do.......
THE traitor in the WHITE HOUSE
and the ex secretary of state and the current one...

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[discostu]

Air superiority is now about drones.