Does The U.S.Defense Budget Need To Increase Even More?

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Max Boot, Business Insider/Foreign Policy: America's military doesn't have enough money to do its job

* Trump has failed to fulfill his campaign promise of beefing up the military's budget.
* As a result the US military's readiness, performance, and accident reduction efforts have faltered, and America's ability to keep peace worldwide may be affected.
* Congress has been unable to unilaterally increase spending.

Sherlock Holmes once solved the mystery of a disappearing racehorse by noting “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” But, a Scotland Yard detective objected, “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” Holmes’s laconic reply: “That was the curious incident.”

Today, in Washington, the dog that isn’t barking is the defense budget. It is the biggest issue that no one — at least no one outside the defense policy community‚ is talking about.

There are plenty of warning signs that the defense budget is too small to meet the United States’ global commitments, and that military readiness is suffering with dangerous consequences. Back in June, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told the House Armed Services Committee that having returned to the military after four years of retirement, he was “shocked by what I’ve seen with our readiness to fight.”

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WNU Editor: It is people like the above author Max Boot, Sen. John McCain, the Bush administration, etc. who supported and pushed for America to get involved in multiple wars and conflicts since the Iraq war in 2003. And since the money is no longer there to support it .... they want to spend more. President Trump did not get elected on an interventionist platform .... and getting involved in multiple conflicts is a guarantee that over time America's military will be a shell of what it is today, regardless of how much money is poured into it.