This “National Security Journal” which I have seen posted here more often recently, seems to be stalking horse for interests that wish even more money to be spend on our military. Those interests may be varied, and their motivations are unknown.
I have heard it said that China sees money spent on armaments as wasted money, when they can achieve their goals without those gigantic defense expenditures via subterfuge, espionage, theft of intellectual property, predatory business practices, and propaganda. They spend enough on the military to encourage us to make even larger expenditures on our military that we have to increase our debt to do.
That is just a theory, that I have heard some respected people venture, based on the fact that the CCP has been dedicated to engaging in asymmetrical warfare on all non-kinetic fronts (Economic, Military, Societal) against the United States for decades, and our leadership seems not to notice. They saw what took place in the Gulf War, and concentrated efforts in other places, but need to string us along in military expenditures to bankrupt us in the same way we bankrupted the Soviet Union. At least, that is how the theory goes.
It is my opinion that we should indeed spend money on our military, but we need an overhaul on how that is done, especially in the acquisition process. If we need to spend money we don’t have, we better figure out how to do it more intelligently and efficiently.
