Posted on 03/24/2014 11:23:52 AM PDT by Nachum
President Barack Obama is seeking to abolish two highly successful missile programs that experts say has helped the U.S. Navy maintain military superiority for the past several decades.
The Tomahawk missile program—known as “the world’s most advanced cruise missile”—is set to be cut by $128 million under Obama’s fiscal year 2015 budget proposal and completely eliminated by fiscal year 2016, according to budget documents released by the Navy.
In addition to the monetary cuts to the program, the number of actual Tomahawk missiles acquired by the United States would drop significantly—from 196 last year to just 100 in 2015. The number will then drop to zero in 2016.
The Navy will also be forced to cancel its acquisition of the well-regarded and highly effective Hellfire missiles in 2015, according to Obama’s proposal.
The proposed elimination of these missile programs came as a shock to lawmakers and military experts, who warned ending cutting these missiles would significantly erode America’s ability to deter enemy forces.
“The administration’s proposed budget dramatically under-resources our investments in munitions and leaves the Defense Department with dangerous gaps in key areas, like Tomahawk and Hellfire missiles,” said Rep. Randy Forbes (R., Va.), a member of House Armed Services Committee.
“Increasing our investment in munitions and retaining our technological edge in research and development should be a key component of any serious defense strategy,” he said.
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Obama vs The US Military
How long before the nation’s self preservation instincts kick in?
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What has he been promised in return for destroying us?
Obama is a suicide pact. If people haven’t reacted yet, I doubt they will on this one. Most will never know about it.
“How long before the nation’s self preservation instincts kick in?”
Self-preservation is a biological reaction to a physical threat. This is at best an intellectual threat. No one is directly threatened so there can’t be a flight or fight response. No one will “react” to this. The fight, if there is one, will be political. I suspect that Congress will fight it if only because these programs mean employment in their states or districts. (Congress has several times voted funds to keep open the M1 tank facility in Lima, Oh, despite the Army wanting to close it.)
And one... ONE man is accomplishing all of this destruction.
Keep this in mind before those who attack us for being sensible about Russia of being soft on that country show up on this thread.
Its not Putin they ought to worry about; its Obama.
And to the moderator: I am not attacking any one personally here; I’m simply pointing out that if we don’t have the means to defend our national interests, we’re not going to be able to do anything more in response to our potential adversaries than to draft strongly worded letters of condemnation to them.
Take it as you like it.
We don’t need them anymore because Mooch-elle has just delivered the latest blueprints and software for all our weapon systems going back to the Civil War to the ChiComs and through them to the Putinistas, while on her multi-million Yuan vacation.
Congress will determine how much of what is purchased. Exclusively.
This is just an example of Obama's "SHOW BUDGET" which he knew would never be enacted...thus the careless cuts to essential munitions.
Some WH staffer was told to find another $1bil in the defense budget and he did. Probably cut humvee tires and 155mm rounds too. He just went through until he hit the number without regard to WHAT was being cut.
Much ado about nothing.
“How long before the nation’s self preservation instincts kick in?”
We’ve shed that a long time ago. There are three conditions to avoid chaos in America:
Does the media ignore, or spin the problem so it seems to be a good thing?
Are smartphones available and working?
Are EBT cards being charged up?
Forget it. There won’t be any reaction until one of the 3 above conditions isn’t met.
The true damage done by Obama and his regime will not be realized for at least 10 years.
Obama murdered the Constitution, Law, Freedom of religion,
the Family, ... and now,
the undocumented Tyrant will put the last nail
in America’s coffin.
The EXEMPT and PROTECTED will howl in delight
for their controllers, ... again.
“And one... ONE man is accomplishing all of this destruction.”
Nope. It’s the “dinosaur media” that we used to laugh at here. None of this would be possible without active media participation.
Didn't we just give 2B to Ukraine (I wonder how much went into Georgie Soros' pocket...), and 2B to the Islamists, and 2B to Africa???
How much of our tax dollars has he steered toward his solar cell cronies, not to mention the billions and billions of dollars he's wasted?
And now that he's turned the world into a powder keg, he's all about disarming us! A stupid, stupid, people put this man in charge of their nation...
Probably some numbnuts that thinks Tomahawks are feather-bedecked hatchets and that Hellfire was something in the Chaplain corps ...
“What has he been promised in return for destroying us?”
Probably ownership of one of the territories of the New Soviet States Of America.
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