Posted on 02/24/2014 7:29:21 PM PST by MeshugeMikey
The Pentagon plans to scale back the US Army by more than an eighth to its lowest level since before World War II, signaling a shift after more than a decade of ground wars.
Saying it was time to "reset" for a new era, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recommended shrinking American forces from 520,000 active duty troops to between 440,000 and 450,000.
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I have never understood (actually I do) why writers excuse the perp of so many actions by stating things like “the Pentagon is doing it,” “the IRS is doing such and such,” and so forth.
Truth be told, all the ugly actions coming out of the U.S. today are because of one person - you know who the dirt bag is.
Yeah, there are no threats to the world right now. /s
They think they are doing us a favor by making it impossible for us to contemplate a foreign war. We will be too weak to win, so we will not fight. They think they are saving lives and money.
It's not our job to protect the world. Getting involved in World War I was one of the biggest mistakes the country made.
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
now we know why the military is being cut dratically. NSA IRS DHS EPA et all growing and growing.
buying up billions in ammo.
this just hit me. He is actually going to accomplish this objective.
we are in deep sh!t,
However, it is our job to protect ourselves. The army was using brooms to train with as “rifles” right before Pearl Harbor. Here we go again.
Ping.
Ping.
What will “Doormat” Boehner do now?
Will “Capitulation” Cantor again turn and run?
Will “No Resistance” Ryan simply shrug and say?:
“Obama wins again, as he does every day.”
The House RINO Leadership,
Is now on full display,
Showing their might,
To always Cave-In,
And never, ever fight.
Active Duty ping.
Evidently, the Corps of Pentagon Chair Polishers never studied any history.
I have a similar reaction,
the army is mainly for large scale land wars and the GWB wars as well as Obama’s Afghanistan actions have turned Americans more isolationist than ever.
Land invasions are out.
More-so I don’t trust either party myself on it.
coup
If Congress approves this then it’s a done deal.
They stuff defense budgets with stuff all the time.
If it’s important they’ll propose an alternative.
I think we can pare back myself but, not in the depth discussed by Hazel.
I also don’t think that is the actual goal
They are proposing a “Floor” and will work up from there, toward their actual goal.
A-10? Sorry, drones can do that job with less risk to pilots, excellent accuracy and results and destroy targets for lower cost per action.
We can provide more drones than other low ceiling assets at a much lower cost and they can support on station much longer than other assets, as well refuel/resupply from basing closer to action .
F-35 should be fully developed and we should begin with the 35already ordered and now pared back to 25.
Personally I’d buy a couple hundred over the next. Three years but, that’s me.
I’d keep pushing our adversaries to play catch up.
2 new subs a year? uhm, minimum.
I think onnthe troop size I’d pare by maybe 20% and hold
I’d develop civilian programs that teach critical and basic skills like that found in CMP so as we go through the years there will be plenty of people with basic skills long before enlistment.
This is necessary to shift money to the burgeoning welfare state. This is where the votes are for the Democrats. Government dependency.
The F-35 seems to be a total crap-ball: all hype and little to support it.* It's touted as a "one size fits all" airframe, which has historically meant "does nothing particularly well". The F-22 on the other hand had a good, clear design-goal: air-superiority.
* It has been plagued with software problems, probably because (a) they insisted on using C++ instead of Ada [there's technical reasons why this matters, but I won't bore you], (b) the "do everything" likely means that there's a lack of real vision in management, (c) "everything's good"-ism [where each level paints a better picture than the one before it, meaning the further you are from the actual problem, the less troublesome it is perceived].
Defense should be among the last things cut.
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