U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships steam in formation during their military manoeuvre exercise known as Keen Sword 15 in the sea south of Japan, in this November 19, 2014 handout provided by the U.S. Navy. REUTERS/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Chris Cavagnaro/U.S. Navy/Handout
One News Now: Forget two-front war, U.S. can't fight one
A national defense analyst says the U.S. military has lost its ability to fight a prolonged conventional war because of President Obama.
"Thirty years ago, we had 350,000," Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis (USA-Ret.) says of the U.S. armed forces. "Now we're down to 60 to 65,000 and most of those are not fighters."
The Pentagon announced last year that the U.S. military would shrink to numbers the mirror pre-World War II levels.
According to The Daily Beast, the Pentagon has learned it's not prepared for a sustained military campaign against Russia if a conflict erupts in Europe.
"The U.S. military has run the numbers on a sustained fight with Moscow," the news website reported in an August 14 story, "and they do not look good for the American side."
WNU Editor: The U.S. is no longer able/capable to fight a prolonged and bloody one-front war let alone a two-front war.... but on a positive note .... neither is anyone else.
As much as I dislike Obama, I don't think placing the entirety of the blame on him is logical.
ReplyDeleteThis shrinkage has been occurring for sometime, and I believe way before Obama, but at such a level that it went unnoticed. Obama just accelerated the process and certainly didn't help it, but America was never going to be able to sustain it's previous levels of military forces with the way the American economy has being going, and that is downhill and that was downhill a long time before Obama stepped into the Oval office.
Of course it's illogical. Iraq and Afghanistan broke the military, and then sequestration. There's more than enough blame to go around. Now, we're spending asinine amounts of money on weapons that do not work or that will take billions to fix. Those new weapons, while offering a slight advantage in sortie rates and effectiveness, will only be able to be bought in such low numbers that they will leave us less capable than we were before.
ReplyDeleteSo the problem is spread over many years and administrations.