The Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, taken from an airplane in January 2008. Wikipedia
Observer: Pentagon Sounds Alarm on Budget Crisis, but No One Is Listening
At Yakota Air Base in Japan last week, President Donald Trump told an audience of American service personnel, “We dominate the sky, sea… land and space.” Certainly since the first Gulf War in 1991, America could rightly proclaim that its military was the finest, most capable and best equipped force on the globe. That legacy still exists—but only for the time being.
The irony is that 16 years of war and continued military operations can only be sustained with defense budgets that are substantially larger than what we are prepared to spend. While both Armed Services Committees of Congress have recognized this necessity with a recommended defense budget of more than $700 billion this year, given proposed tax cuts and a national debt of $20 trillion, the chances of approval are small. And the chances of sustaining that budget absent another major war are nil.
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WNU Editor: There is no political will in Congress to increase the defense budget to the levels that the Pentagon wants .... so expect a decline in U.S. military readiness to continue.
2 comments:
The US defense budget is larger than the next 10-20 countries combined. Maybe instead of increasing the defense budget, we should stop trying to be the policeman of the world.
First Point
Maybe the European budgets are too low, because they are coasting under the American umbrella.
Second Point
Why let things snowball?
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