“And I agree that we don’t need to send more money to the DoD, just make sure they spend it more wisely.”
We lost $85 Billion—leaving Afghanistan as Biden ordered—UNWISELY. That encouraged Putin, which should have the US spending even more on defense. As an example, the Javelin missiles going to Ukraine cost $107K each.
Decaying rates of enlistment are going to cost even more. Biden’s firing of our troops who won’t take the Vax will cost billions in just re-training those thousands we can round up as replacements. Experienced troops will be a difficult loss to experience.
Obama’s third term is catastrophic to our defense—and just about everything else!
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The F-35 is an example where they claimed trying to make one plane to fill three completely different missions would save money. To top it off, instead of having most of the plane designed and built in one location, they spread out the work to pretty much every congressman’s district. That only added to costs, delays, and mistakes. So even when pubbies are in charge the system is set up for failure.