U.S. marines of 1st Battalion, 8th Marines Regiment rest during the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Philippines 2014, a U.S.-Philippines military exercise, on a beach facing South China sea, at San Antonio, Zambales north of Manila June 30, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Erik De Castro
U.S. Military To Face Growing Crises, Falling Budgets -- Reuters
(Reuters) - First it was worries over the South China Sea, Afghanistan, Libya, Mali and Syria. Then it was Russia's annexation of Crimea and the hunt for Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram. Now the United States and its allies find themselves preparing once again for potential military action in Iraq.
For U.S. defense planners already struggling to implement savage spending cuts, the last year has been one of the most demanding since the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Almost every other month a new crisis has erupted, each demanding new military deployments and resources. With the United States already stressed by more than a decade of war, some worry the strain is starting to show.
"North Korea and Iran also haven't gone away," said Kathleen Hicks, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) who until last year was U.S. principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy.
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My Comment: This level of activity is not sustainable .... and there are even more budget cuts on the horizon.
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"This level of activity is not sustainable .... and there are even more budget cuts on the horizon."
Yeah ...And?
When a politician and a political party come to power dissing the American power and the American military in particular and when they have Santa Claus economic policy for the lower classes and cronyism at top, there is no where for them to go.
There is no way for them to cut in another area to fund the military.
I don't believe they can reorganize the military either. They have not studied it except form the prism of Peace studies and Marxist ideology.
Aizino you are exactly right.
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