This piece fails to take into account that our military is not sitting idly by while other Nations improve their technology.
The Chinese are a good 15 yrs or more behind us in both technology and force size. They won’t catch us unless we sit on our asses and get complacent.
Of the 19 aircraft carriers on this planet the United States of America operates 11 of them including 10 in service and one Reserve. China is reported to have three.
It is possible that just one of these monsters can annihilate an entire country. Along with these ships we have our MIRVED Missile subs,constantly on patrol and numbering 20 in total. Each sub carries 24 missiles with each missile having 8 independently targeted warheads. Each warhead is from 20-25 times more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. This adds up too about 4000 nukes which can be targeted on any location on the planet within 7 days or less.
Any nation attacking us will do so with the full knowledge heir Nation will be obliterated within hours of the attack by them.
Ummmm... Our nation HAS stood idly by under Obama. Are you aware that our tech ‘showpiece’ DDG-1000 destroyer currently doesn’t have any working weapons systems and the main gun on it will never work because we couldn’t be bothered to buy ammo for it? And that we actually deployed the ship like that?
The Chinese are a good 15 yrs or more behind us in both technology and force size. They won’t catch us unless we sit on our asses and get complacent
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Or use sequestration to squeeze the mil below WWI size, cut essential training, stop buying spare parts and use a lot of the rest for Social Justice, LBGQxyz awareness, and lower standards so far that a 34 year old mom can become an Army Ranger.
So as you see we are not sitting on our asses growing ever more complacent, but rushing to the forefront of political correctness and social justice in ways the PLA, PLAN, and PLAF cannot possibly hope to match in their lifetimes.
And what good does all those nuclear weapons do in a non-nuclear war? (i.e.: Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Mexico (sooner or later), ad naseam)?