Ok.... Explain in how we are getting weaker... Not the usual crap.. I heard that crap when Reagan was President....
1] Smaller % of total spending going to military. Domestic and global welfare taking an ever increasing share of total % of spending.
2] What $ do go to military has a very small % going to procurement and R&D (mostly going toward police actions in Middle-East, pay, logistics).
3] Lack of strategic weapon development.
4] We no longer have superior weapons over Russia. Russia can outclass us in certain performance areas of various weapon systems.
5] Spy activity (especially from China) is at historic highs, yet Bush admin seems to do nothing about it.
6] Open borders with a flood of invaders--more so now than ever under any other president.
7] Fixation on giving away the national treasury (Africa, et al.) as we push our debt toward $10 trillion mark.
8] We have lost our edge as world's most powerful economy. Pacific rim has closed gap and trend will continue.
9] Weaker leadership. The RATs no longer care about the nation, only gaining power. It used to be we had statesmen like Sam Nunn, Scoop Jakson et al. in the RAT ranks--no more. Zell Miller, the only RAT holdout, has retired.
10] The major weapon systems we employ were mostly developed in the Reagan years. Our hardware is getting old, and the replacements keep getting scaled back (F-35), delayed (F-22), or eliminated (Crusader et al.).
11] Unilateral disarmament in WMDs (chemical and biological) as other nations ramp up production of WMDs.
12] No new ICBM in years. Russia will soon outclass us in ICBM capability (scramjet, maneuverable warheads/final stages), etc.
This is just a fraction of the many examples. We no longer have the edge. The most important area that we have become weaker in is national focus. Under Reagan, he had a nationalistic undertow to his agenda. Under Bush, there is not a gram of nationalism in his thinking. His sole focus seems to be "what scrap of remaining remnants of national sovereignty can I give away today." Every act undertaken internationally favors foreign nations and weakens our nation, from trade agreements to the draining of our national treasury as we pump it to corrupt dictators.
We are getting weaker. If you don't understand this, you are not crunching numbers and keeping up with international events.
What "crap" are you alluding to???
I assume you don't mean the objective assessments that our military was in gross decline versus the Soviets prior to Reagan's rebuilding of our forces?