Thursday, February 25, 2021

Is A New U.S. Strategy On Its Massive Military Deployments Overseas Needed?


Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today:
'A reckoning is near': America has a vast overseas military empire. Does it still need it? 

The U.S. has enjoyed global military dominance for decades. But in the face of emerging threats, some say a new strategy is in order. 

MANAMA, Bahrain – After weeks at sea, hundreds of young Americans shed their military uniforms for baseball caps and T-shirts and poured forth from the main gates of the heavily fortified U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet base, a major hub for U.S. naval forces in the Middle East. 

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln had just docked in Bahrain, a small Arab island nation on the southwestern coast of the Persian Gulf. The disembarking U.S. service members were intent on cutting loose for a respite from their national security mission patrolling one of the world's busiest and most volatile shipping lanes. 

About 200 miles to the east, across a body of water that has seen many tense naval encounters and acts of sabotage, sat America's longtime adversary Iran. It was November 2019. 


WNU Editor: This blog has been advocating for a debate on U.S. national security priorities and policies to justify its military programs and budgets. Unfortunately. I do not see that debate happening anytime soon.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The US has a QDR which gives policy makers information to decide policy. Voters elect politicians. So there is debate. There definitely is debate. Is the debate as widespread and definitive enough?

It depends how good the Pentagon officials are in putting together the QDR (& other docs). Are the officials Yes men? Are the politicians and their staff honest or are they AOC-like?

There can be a lot of broken kinks in the process.

One of them would be the press. The MSM is nothing but a continuous meme generator. If or when the press does put out good information most people are so fatigued wit their constant histrionics that very few people see or pay attention to the good stuff.

Anon said...

And this one was another question.