Once health care gets passed, defense spending will drop even faster and farther. Better learn to speak Chinese and Russian the way things are headed.
Posted on 01/06/2010 12:44:37 PM PST by pissant
In this week's issue of Defense News , Ilan Berman, vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, warns, "Stagnation threatens U.S. arms superiority." After noting recent tests by Russia and China of new nuclear-armed missiles, Berman writes,
Indeed, practically every declared nuclear weapon state is engaged in a serious modernization of its strategic arsenal. The United States, by contrast, has allowed its strategic infrastructure to atrophy since the end of the Cold War.
The results of this neglect are striking, as scholars Bradley Thayer and Thomas Skypek have detailed in a pair of studies. America's ICBM force is aging rapidly, and the retirement of long-range missiles such as the Minuteman and Peacekeeper in the years ahead will cause a major constriction in the U.S. ballistic missile arsenal, with no replacements in sight. Meanwhile, the U.S. bomber fleet has shrunk by nearly two-thirds since 2001.
President Barack Obama is committed to creating a "world without nuclear weapons." He may try to get there by leading by example. He chaired a rare head-of-state meeting of the UN Security Council last September which unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the elimination of nuclear arms. His Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in part on the basis of his no-nukes campaign. Yet, Russia and China are moving forward despite having voted for the UN resolution, and have also provided diplomatic and material support for the nuclear programs in Iran and North Korea.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin opened the New Year by insisting his country would develop new "offensive" weapons systems before it considered cutting nuclear warheads. He said the new weapons were necessary to prevent America's leaders from thinking they can "do whatever they want."
The emerging American strategic predicament is about more than the number of delivery systems and warheads. As Berman points out,
An aging work force and poor incentives for science and technology education also raise the possibility that the current decline could become irreversible unless major investments are made, and soon.
Berman does not go further into details, but the U.S. aerospace industry lost a million jobs during the ill-considered "post-Cold War" defense downsizing of the 1990s. Hundreds of firms left the industry with many simply going out of existence. A decade of small, counterinsurgency wars has stretched the American military without prompting any rebuilding of high-end force levels in airpower, naval fleet size, or strategic nuclear forces.
The same issue of Defense News features a front page story on how theater commanders are competing for the small number of warships capable of shooting down ballistic missiles in the wake of Obama's decision to cut land-based missile defense programs.
The result of two decades of minimal procurement of advanced systems has been a decline in the nation's defense industrial base, which will make rearmament more difficult, slower and more expensive the longer it is delayed. Meanwhile, new regional powers and peer competitors are rising around the world, empowered by the global spread of technology and industrial capabilities. Berman warns,
This has dire implications for American security and the durability of U.S. alliances in the years ahead. Already, many countries are beginning to think of the day after U.S. nuclear dominance.
And those thoughts do not lead towards a better world.
Yes he is .
If you were raised for 8 years, from the age of 10 to 18, by a card carrying bi-sexual radical AA Communist from Chicago with a 601 page FBI file, what kind of Community Organizer would you be?
One who prefers “Marxist professors”, so that you wouldn’t be a “sell-out”???
Is it any wonder no college records have been released, or ever will be? Did you read hi bisexual poem about “Pops” smell on him and how Pop made him smell it??? It was truly a weird thing ... and pretty disgusting too.
Did everyone see it and read it???
Gee, no wonder every day of the year is Gay Lez Tranny Whooha/Whacko Day, now officially recognized and celebrated by the US of Obama ........
HIs first pol, to whom he was “chief of staff”, flew often to Moscow for the Communist Party Congress and came back praising the Soviet Union. He didn’t quit and he didn’t protest.
When he cheated her by getting her kicked off the re-election ballot (using legalistic tricks, just like he does now), SHE never protested, nor would accept any interviews.
Can you say “Party Discipline???
I mean, his mother met his “father’ while studying Russian for God’s sakes -— in 1959!!!
Have you never read in a history book that the Russians look for future agents in Russian Language classes? Of course! Where else to look?
Please read this, and tell everyone:
Then ask yourself, and everyone around you:
Why do the President’s two daughters both have Russian names???
Ever met any African-American who has two children, both with Russian names???
Ever met ANYONE who has two children, both with Russian names???
I haven’t.
Mmmm mmmmm mmmmmm.
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/15127
but we hold our hand out and they will unclench their fist
what utter crap.
The man needs a history lesson, then go to church(still looking for one hey, why doesn’t he do Christmas too) and then do a bit of geography.
Yesterday he said that AQ was set up in the Arabian area because of Gitmo.
Then appointing a man who has a his penis chopped off to think he’s a woman and appointing a bunch of perverts like Jennings,
Now if anyone thinks this mans mind is sane then they need to check themselves in to a mental place.
Our allies are pissed off with us, UK, France, italy, Israel, Poland, Czech republic, Germany and the others who hate us still hate , yes obama and lefty trolls they do, your dear cult leader changed nothing but to piss off allies.
In Europe I have family and all of them have said that obama was a phony and a joke, a man who has no leadership, is dumb.
In fact after yesterday ITN a news media in the UK was laughing at obama for his comments yesterday, everyone was making fun of him.
If the idiots in the media and the street would wake up they too would realise the same
Once health care gets passed, defense spending will drop even faster and farther. Better learn to speak Chinese and Russian the way things are headed.
Anyone who supports Free Trade with Communist China is supporting China’s military build-up.
The Economic Anti-Americans not only ship our jobs and wealth to the ChiComs....they help build up their military at the same time. Just brilliant.
The Marxist/ Sol Alinskyites that have high-jacked our nation are in lockstep with their comrads in Bejing and Moscow.
Electing a commie muzzie has consequences.
LLS
1930’s Redux
He is, but Bush and Rumsfield also gutted our military in their quest for reform and a war on the cheap.
No, they actually didn’t.
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