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Report: Congressional Panel Finds that U.S. Military Is ‘Not Prepared’ for War
Breitbart ^ | 07/29/2023 | ELIZABETH WEIBEL

Posted on 07/29/2024 6:05:35 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A report has found that the United States military is “not prepared” to fight in a major war, as “major powers” — such as Russia and China — have become “top threats” to the U.S., with China “outpacing” the U.S.

The report, which the Commission on the National Defense Strategy released in July, reveals that while the U.S. is currently facing some of “the most serious and most challenging” threats since 1945, several problems are preventing the U.S. military from being able to address threats from China or Russia.

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KEYWORDS: bidenmilitary; chat; congressional; fjb; lgb; military; prepared; war
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With our country going bankrupt and all that woke crap is coming home to roost
1 posted on 07/29/2024 6:05:35 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why should God make us strong?


2 posted on 07/29/2024 6:09:24 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Shouldn’t that be confidential information? Why broadcast it to the enemies? Although, they should have figured it out themselves.


3 posted on 07/29/2024 6:12:17 PM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

From what I know all I have to say is No Sh_t Sherlock.


4 posted on 07/29/2024 6:12:53 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (More important than why there was nobody protecting the AGR roof, how did Crooks know that?)
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To: Old Yeller

It's not exactly a secret.

5 posted on 07/29/2024 6:15:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Sequoyah101

Of any of the elite military units function like the supposedly elite crack team of the secret service. We’re so screwed


6 posted on 07/29/2024 6:16:33 PM PDT by midwest_hiker
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This country is not equipped to produce the necessary military machinery needed to wage a protracted war on other shores. We will never see the likes of the production that occurred during WWII. It took at least two years for U.S. factories to retool all their factory lines in order to be able to start producing planes, tanks, artillery pieces, etc. After a total of 4 years, we were out-producing all other countries. There is no guarantee that factory owners would even come on board as they did after FDR created the War Production Board. Nor would we have the military manpower that we had in WWII.


7 posted on 07/29/2024 6:17:37 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Old Yeller
Shouldn’t that be confidential information?

The public has a right to know that its military is ineffective and being hollowed out. Did you notice that the services no longer publish its recruiting and retention shortfalls?

8 posted on 07/29/2024 6:17:58 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m pretty sure the Russians and Chinese don’t practice DEI. The other thing is that the Ukraine war was an excellent testbed for Russia to learn how to counter US weapons.


9 posted on 07/29/2024 6:17:58 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: Old Yeller

Fat men, fat single women with kids, DEI and LGBT+ making up today’s military personnel are no secrets. It’s probably going to take an existential war to change things, particularly if Trump doesn’t win. We’ve probably already lost the next existential war if Trump and Vance don’t win.


10 posted on 07/29/2024 6:18:33 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: midwest_hiker

My father was an Air Commando in Viet Nam. Stories of his training amaze me to this day.
Nothing like my service or my son’s or my brother’s training.


11 posted on 07/29/2024 6:18:46 PM PDT by midwest_hiker
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To: MinorityRepublican

Army strong, baby - Army strong


12 posted on 07/29/2024 6:19:08 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: midwest_hiker
Of any of the elite military units function like the supposedly elite crack team of the secret service. We’re so screwed.

To be honest with you, we should downsize our military. Army and Marines should be mostly reserves now.

Our focus should be the Navy and the Air Force.

We need to kill the woke virus somehow that's infecting everything.

13 posted on 07/29/2024 6:19:26 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Army and Marines should be mostly reserves now.

That was the French strategy following World War I.

14 posted on 07/29/2024 6:22:42 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: mass55th

Or the manufacturing expertise. Making widgets can be more art than science at times. Having ppl who know the art of it isn’t common anymore.


15 posted on 07/29/2024 6:23:35 PM PDT by 556x45
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To: midwest_hiker

Stateside training was not enough for a lot of units and the men assigned to those units could be sent to Long Binh/Bien Hoa Camp Frenzel Jones area for in country advanced training by the 199th combat instructors who all had served in combat, dealing specifically with jungle and village exposure.


16 posted on 07/29/2024 6:31:48 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But they can name all 57 genders!


17 posted on 07/29/2024 6:31:55 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ("Gays for Gaza is like Chickens for KFC"- B. Netanyahu )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Not prepared for war?

I have said this ever since they let pretty girls and homos in the service.

New book explores life, legacy of 'bold' female Marine killed in Iraq

Gay soldiers at Fort Campbell open up on coming out

18 posted on 07/29/2024 6:32:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (2 coups in less than 4 years. America is truly a first world Banana Republic.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

What’s with all their orange belts?

Answer: To hold in their fat guts.


19 posted on 07/29/2024 6:33:57 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (2 coups in less than 4 years. America is truly a first world Banana Republic.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; All
Thank you for referencing that article ChicagoConservative27.

"Report: Congressional Panel Finds that U.S. Military Is ‘Not Prepared’ for War"


FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

It's Congress's constitutional duty to make sure that the armed forces are ready for war.

"Article I, Section 8, Clause 16: To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;"

The remedy for U.S. Military not being prepared for war is for Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress in November, not only so that he won't be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, the new Congress also doing its duty to guarantee military readiness.

Also, let's not allow the anti-Trump media try to fade our memories of what we witnessed on July 13.

Down the Memory Hole: Google Hides Autocomplete Suggestions Related to Trump Assassination Attempt (7.28.24)

20 posted on 07/29/2024 6:45:37 PM PDT by Amendment10
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