Is The U.S. Military Spending Its Money On The Right Stuff?

The U.S. Air Force's "boneyard" of surplus warplanes at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. US Air Force

Keeping The Pentagon’s Challenges in Perspective -- Mark Thompson, Time

Military stakeholders, including the press, are responsible for a pervasive sense of fear

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Too often, that’s because partisanship comes into play. As a rule, Republicans want a muscular national-security strategy, with the robust and more costly military that requires. Democrats tend to want the opposite. Those in charge routinely confirm the status quo as if on auto-pilot.

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My Comment: Absent leadership and a clear strategy .... we end up being in the situation that we are in today. Spending billions on weapon systems that have no bearing on fighting the wars today ... or whether it is even in our national security interest to fight them.