Posted on 02/21/2017 5:02:37 PM PST by Kaslin
From the Air Force to the Army, America's military service branches are busy preparing ambitious proposals to expand, as President Trump renews his pledge to rebuild a fighting force he says has become "depleted."
"Our country will never have had a military like the military we're about to build and rebuild,” Trump said at last week’s press conference. “It won't be depleted for long."
The president made rebuilding the military a centerpiece of his campaign, and sent a fresh signal of his intentions with his choice for national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster – who for months has sounded the alarm about the declining state of the U.S. Army.
"We are outranged and outgunned by many potential adversaries ... [and] our army in the future risks being too small to secure the nation," McMaster told a Senate Armed Services subcommittee last April. Trump’s decision to tap McMaster brings a vocal advocate for boosting the Armed Forces into his inner circle.
Seeing an opening to address longstanding readiness concerns, the service branches all have proposed plans to expand. For some, they seek a gradual increase. For others, the proposed ramp-up would be steep.
The Air Force wants to expand its forces by 30,000 airmen over the next five-to-six years.
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A wish list?
You don’t say...
#1 on the wish list, is holding NATO to account.
Our boys go on patrol while their boys play Xbox
Our guys are tired.
Yeah thanks to that arrogant pos former occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Poland and the UK pay their fair share in NATO.
“The Air Force wants to expand its forces by 30,000 airmen over the next five-to-six years.”
Well, they’d better fix all the damned $hit airplanes then. They currently don’t have much to fly. Ditto for the Navy and the USMC.
Indeed they do,Romania tries.
The rest? Feh
It’s a problem
Reminds me,where are we now? Romania!
Defense spending by % of GDP, in 2016:
USA 3.61%
Greece (remarkably) 2.38%
UK 2.21%
Estonia 2.16%
Poland 2%
France 1.78%
and after that it mostly gets worse, such as Germany at 1.19%.
Granted that the US spends a lot of it’s 3.61% on non-Nato spending, while I suspect that a country like Germany is spending almost all of what they do spend on NATO related expenses.
And... Turkey spends 1.56% — I’m not so sure we want THEM to increase...
http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/08/news/nato-summit-spending-countries/
Interesting numbers:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/31/news/saudi-arabia-russia-military-spending/index.html?iid=EL
Obviously, the Trump energy agenda will put a serious dent in the ambitions of the Russians, the Saudis, the Iranians...
I’m not supportive of a large standing Army unless and until an impenetrable legal firewall is created to protect the foxhole enlisted guys and lieutenants/captains from the blankety blank leftist politicians and their lawyers ROE’s to say nothing of assorted other PC bullshit like women in foxholes and women rangers and pregnancy leaves and gay this and that and the list is a mile long.
The purpose of a large standing Army is to advance on and KILL the enemy. To fund trillions for one that can’t kill the enemy because it’s hands are tied behind its back is feel good show for politicians and pure folly and
a complete waste of taxpayer money.
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