Americas Military Power in a Steep Decline
Mar 8, 2015 09:55:32 #
We are not prepared to fight a war and now you know why.
Eliminating the terrorists of today with force will not guarantee protection from the terrorists of tomorrow. We have to t***sform the environments that give birth to these movements It may be training young people so they can get jobs it may be working to eliminate corruption and promote the rule of law
The Obama administration proposal that a jobs program be created for the militants in the Middle East was met with appropriate derision because what the jihadists need is k*****g. Thats what they are doing to Christians, Jews and others in the Middle East and elsewhere.
The quote above is by John Kerry, the Secretary of State, and to be fair, his February 18 Wall Street Journal commentary began by saying The rise of violent extremism represents the pre-eminent challenge of the young 21st Century. Military force is a rational and often necessary response to the wanton slaughters of children, mass kidnappings of schoolgirls, and beheading of innocents. But military force along wont achieve victory.
Kerry is wrong. History as recent as the mid-20th century is proof enough that the military defeat of N**i Germany and the Empire of Japan was the only thing that ended the threat they represented. He was also wrong when he told a congressional committee that the world is a safer place these days when it is clear to anyone it is not.
We are being led by people who live in some alternative universe where pixie dust and unicorns exist.
The real question the Obama administration has to answer is why, since he took office in 2009, has he been systematically reducing the military power of the United States? By pulling our troops out of Iraq he created a vacuum filled by the Islamic State (ISIS) that now threatens the entire Middle East and parts of North Africa. He has since curtailed plans to pull most of our troops out of Afghanistan.
Out of sight of Americans, however, the key personnel, the leaders on which our military depends, have been subject to a purge. General Paul Vallely (Ret) has warned that Since Barack Obama has been in the White House, high ranking military officers have been removed from their positions at a rate that is absolutely unprecedented, adding that Hes intentionally weakening and gutting our military and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.
In late February, 84 former U.S. government officials, retired U.S. military leaders, and national security experts sent an open letter to the House and Senate leadership asking them to work together to end the harm that the Budget Control Act and sequestration is inflicting on our Armed Forces.
They deemed the trillion dollars of required defense spending cuts a grave and growing danger to our national security as threats intensify across the globe. The cuts are undermining the readiness of our forces today and investment in the critical capabilities they will need tomorrow.
In the last three years, the Armys strength has been cut by nearly 100,000 soldiers. The Navys contingency response force is at one-third the level of what it should be. Less than half of the Air Forces combat squadrons are fully ready. Approximately half of the Marine Corps non-deployed units lack sufficient personnel, equipment, and training.
These were facts set forth in the National Defense Panels July 2014 report. It warned that if sequestration takes effect in fiscal year 2016, the U.S. would be facing an immediate readiness crisis.
This lack of readiness was the subject of a Wall Street Journal commentary, Europes Defense Wanes as the Putin Threat Grows by Ian Birrell, so it is not just the United States that lacks sufficient troops and weapons in the event of a war. Birrell noted that With fewer than 100,000 full-time troops, Great Britain now has a smaller army than during the mid-19th-century Crimean War. Other members of NATO have cut their defense budgets in recent years. He warned that As we fight this new Cold War, Western leaders need to relearn the old lessons of crisis management and deterrence that defeated Mr. Putins Soviet predecessorsand relearn them quickly.
Recall that Secretary Kerry has gone on record saying that c*****e c****e is the greatest threat the U.S. and the world faces. Little wonder that Chuck Hegel resigned as the former Secretary of Defense given the pressure he was under from a White House indifferent to the real problems and threats the U.S. faces.
In 2014 the Pentagon released a C*****e C****e Adaptation Forecast and any defense funds diverted to this plan were just that much less than needed for our troops in the field and the real needs of the U.S. military. Are they supposed to be fighting melting ice bergs or staying ready for potential military threats from China or Russia?
An example of the i***tic political correctness, scarce Pentagon resources are being diverted to a plan to generate 50% of the Navys energy needs from alternative sources by 2020, including $3.5 billion for biofuels. You cannot fight a global war if the Navy cannot swiftly and easily acquire oil to run its ships that are not nuclear-powered and fly its aircraft.
At the same time, the U.S. has been reducing its stockpile of nuclear arms. The State Departments Rose Gottemoeller, under-secretary for arms control and international security, recently told a group The U.S. commitment to achieving the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons is unassailable. She noted that the nations stockpile of active weapons is down 85% from maximum cold war levels, falling to 4,804 in 2013 from a high of 31,255, adding that We still have more work to do.
This completely ignores nuclear nations like North Korea who have bad intentions toward the U.S. and their neighbors and it runs completely contrary to the U.S. negotiations with Iran that would permit it to become a nuclear armed nation.
This is worse than diplomatic schizophrenia; it is a plan for national suicide.
Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, recently told Congress that Russia and China have placed their highest priority on building up and maintaining strategic nuclear forces.
If you want to know what is wrong about the entire approach to our nations military needs, consider that since 2009 when Obama took office, the Pentagons civilian workforce has grown about 7% to almost 750,000, while active-duty military personnel have been cut by approximately 8%.
At the same time, dozens of military-equipment and weapons programs have been canceled, including a new Navy cruiser, a new search-and-rescue helicopter, the F-22 first-generation fighter, the C-17 t***sport aircraft, missile defense and the Marine Corps Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle.
We are not prepared to fight a war and now you know why.
By Alan Caruba
Eliminating the terrorists of today with force will not guarantee protection from the terrorists of tomorrow. We have to t***sform the environments that give birth to these movements It may be training young people so they can get jobs it may be working to eliminate corruption and promote the rule of law
The Obama administration proposal that a jobs program be created for the militants in the Middle East was met with appropriate derision because what the jihadists need is k*****g. Thats what they are doing to Christians, Jews and others in the Middle East and elsewhere.
The quote above is by John Kerry, the Secretary of State, and to be fair, his February 18 Wall Street Journal commentary began by saying The rise of violent extremism represents the pre-eminent challenge of the young 21st Century. Military force is a rational and often necessary response to the wanton slaughters of children, mass kidnappings of schoolgirls, and beheading of innocents. But military force along wont achieve victory.
Kerry is wrong. History as recent as the mid-20th century is proof enough that the military defeat of N**i Germany and the Empire of Japan was the only thing that ended the threat they represented. He was also wrong when he told a congressional committee that the world is a safer place these days when it is clear to anyone it is not.
We are being led by people who live in some alternative universe where pixie dust and unicorns exist.
The real question the Obama administration has to answer is why, since he took office in 2009, has he been systematically reducing the military power of the United States? By pulling our troops out of Iraq he created a vacuum filled by the Islamic State (ISIS) that now threatens the entire Middle East and parts of North Africa. He has since curtailed plans to pull most of our troops out of Afghanistan.
Out of sight of Americans, however, the key personnel, the leaders on which our military depends, have been subject to a purge. General Paul Vallely (Ret) has warned that Since Barack Obama has been in the White House, high ranking military officers have been removed from their positions at a rate that is absolutely unprecedented, adding that Hes intentionally weakening and gutting our military and reducing us as a superpower, and anyone in the ranks who disagrees or speaks out is being purged.
In late February, 84 former U.S. government officials, retired U.S. military leaders, and national security experts sent an open letter to the House and Senate leadership asking them to work together to end the harm that the Budget Control Act and sequestration is inflicting on our Armed Forces.
They deemed the trillion dollars of required defense spending cuts a grave and growing danger to our national security as threats intensify across the globe. The cuts are undermining the readiness of our forces today and investment in the critical capabilities they will need tomorrow.
In the last three years, the Armys strength has been cut by nearly 100,000 soldiers. The Navys contingency response force is at one-third the level of what it should be. Less than half of the Air Forces combat squadrons are fully ready. Approximately half of the Marine Corps non-deployed units lack sufficient personnel, equipment, and training.
These were facts set forth in the National Defense Panels July 2014 report. It warned that if sequestration takes effect in fiscal year 2016, the U.S. would be facing an immediate readiness crisis.
This lack of readiness was the subject of a Wall Street Journal commentary, Europes Defense Wanes as the Putin Threat Grows by Ian Birrell, so it is not just the United States that lacks sufficient troops and weapons in the event of a war. Birrell noted that With fewer than 100,000 full-time troops, Great Britain now has a smaller army than during the mid-19th-century Crimean War. Other members of NATO have cut their defense budgets in recent years. He warned that As we fight this new Cold War, Western leaders need to relearn the old lessons of crisis management and deterrence that defeated Mr. Putins Soviet predecessorsand relearn them quickly.
Recall that Secretary Kerry has gone on record saying that c*****e c****e is the greatest threat the U.S. and the world faces. Little wonder that Chuck Hegel resigned as the former Secretary of Defense given the pressure he was under from a White House indifferent to the real problems and threats the U.S. faces.
In 2014 the Pentagon released a C*****e C****e Adaptation Forecast and any defense funds diverted to this plan were just that much less than needed for our troops in the field and the real needs of the U.S. military. Are they supposed to be fighting melting ice bergs or staying ready for potential military threats from China or Russia?
An example of the i***tic political correctness, scarce Pentagon resources are being diverted to a plan to generate 50% of the Navys energy needs from alternative sources by 2020, including $3.5 billion for biofuels. You cannot fight a global war if the Navy cannot swiftly and easily acquire oil to run its ships that are not nuclear-powered and fly its aircraft.
At the same time, the U.S. has been reducing its stockpile of nuclear arms. The State Departments Rose Gottemoeller, under-secretary for arms control and international security, recently told a group The U.S. commitment to achieving the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons is unassailable. She noted that the nations stockpile of active weapons is down 85% from maximum cold war levels, falling to 4,804 in 2013 from a high of 31,255, adding that We still have more work to do.
This completely ignores nuclear nations like North Korea who have bad intentions toward the U.S. and their neighbors and it runs completely contrary to the U.S. negotiations with Iran that would permit it to become a nuclear armed nation.
This is worse than diplomatic schizophrenia; it is a plan for national suicide.
Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, recently told Congress that Russia and China have placed their highest priority on building up and maintaining strategic nuclear forces.
If you want to know what is wrong about the entire approach to our nations military needs, consider that since 2009 when Obama took office, the Pentagons civilian workforce has grown about 7% to almost 750,000, while active-duty military personnel have been cut by approximately 8%.
At the same time, dozens of military-equipment and weapons programs have been canceled, including a new Navy cruiser, a new search-and-rescue helicopter, the F-22 first-generation fighter, the C-17 t***sport aircraft, missile defense and the Marine Corps Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle.
We are not prepared to fight a war and now you know why.
By Alan Caruba
Mar 8, 2015 10:23:57 #
robmull
Loc: florida
JMHO wrote:
b We are not prepared to fight a war and now you ... (show quote)
Yes "WE" are, JMHO. Just because our "usurper-in-chief" has done [his] level-best to demean, disband and demoralize our free-market, Western civilization and military, all of the patriots that have been surreptitiously dismissed from leading commanding positions are fully understanding of what recently t***spired in the more and more obvious Islamic influence our liberal progressive administration is trying to saturate itself with; and America is back-of-her-haunches.
It would take an ENTIRE army of t*****rs to level our military to the "pussy" status that our "dear, red-diaper" leader is obviously attempting, and there is NO nation on earth that thinks "Barry" is in control of the "red" button that would allow "the rifles behind every blade of grass" to be confiscated for a successful radical Islamic, c*******t attack.
Just as our administration has been "fundamentally t***sforming" America to a c*******t/Islamic NWO, patriotic America is infiltrating every phase of every system. Just because a few of the top officials have been summarily dismissed, [they] haven't been dismissed from [their] actual patriotic ideology; and the "troops," many of whom will not take orders from the "enemy," are beginning to sabotage ANY "t***sformation."
Mar 8, 2015 10:34:41 #
robmull wrote:
Yes "WE" are, JMHO. Just because our &q... (show quote)
Well I hope you are right. To defend this country in an attack we would need every person in the military plus all healthy, able bodied former military and a bunch of new members. But if congress does not fund the effort or the Muslim in chief veto's it, we are screwed. Basically what we have to hope is that every single current and able bodied prior military member stands up and fights against Our government and takes control of the White House. Not sure if they would do that though. Let's hope we don't have to find out!!
Mar 8, 2015 10:44:22 #
robmull
Loc: florida
Kachina wrote:
Well I hope you are right. To defend this country ... (show quote)
"WE" have in the past, Kachina, overcome odds that were so far in the enemies favor that "WE" stood absolutely NO chance. God works in mysterious ways, and EVERY brilliant liberal progressive plan to destroy conservatives, Republicans, America and Israel has backfired, BIG TIME.
"WE" now have more conservatives in government since WWI, and instead of demoralizing and destroying BiBi's visit to talk with conservative Congress and America, the "slight" turned into a world-wide embarrassment for those who tried to boycott the HUGE, pro-Israel, pro-BiBi turn-out!!! "Barry" looked like the fool [he] is!!!
Mar 8, 2015 11:16:22 #
JMHO wrote:
b We are not prepared to fight a war and now you ... (show quote)
I get so sick and tired of you right wing out of touch i***ts that say Obama did not leave troops in Iraq and you know that's BS. It was the status of forces agree that Bush signed and Iraq wanted the military out. So GD stop your BS.
I started to read the post and said ahhhhhh Finally you may have something here. Then bang here comes the TP BS Obama this Obama that. Then comes your neo con BS that democrats weaken the military. (No)war destroys the economy and increases our deficit and increases the wealth of your corporate elite
Mar 8, 2015 11:23:07 #
tdsrnest wrote:
I get so sick and tired of you right wing out of t... (show quote)
Turdnest, you can put all the lipstick you want on that pig, but it is still a pig. Obama could have gotten a Status of Forces Agreement, but he didn't, and he did not try very hard to get one. Your coward home boy Obama is just that, a coward. As for the BS, you, and your ilk, are the BS spewers, pal.
You libtards will make great victims when ISIS arrives on our soil. And, you will squeal like good little pigs.
Mar 8, 2015 11:32:16 #
JMHO wrote:
b We are not prepared to fight a war and now you ... (show quote)
I call him the F**E & I bet everyone reading this knows who "him" is...the F**e has been in a destroy America mode ever since he took office & tearing down our military has been at the top of his list. The real question I have is many people have been noticing this as long as I have, many congressmen/women & why has no major movement been initiated to rid of "him" or stop "him"??? Is it a BIG Secret???
Mar 8, 2015 15:35:40 #
JMHO wrote:
Turdnest, you can put all the lipstick you want on that pig, but it is still a pig. Obama could have gotten a Status of Forces Agreement, but he didn't, and he did not try very hard to get one. Your coward home boy Obama is just that, a coward. As for the BS, you, and your ilk, are the BS spewers, pal.
You libtards will make great victims when ISIS arrives on our soil. And, you will squeal like good little pigs.
You libtards will make great victims when ISIS arrives on our soil. And, you will squeal like good little pigs.
:thumbup:
Mar 8, 2015 16:45:37 #
JMHO wrote:
Turdnest, you can put all the lipstick you want on that pig, but it is still a pig. Obama could have gotten a Status of Forces Agreement, but he didn't, and he did not try very hard to get one. Your coward home boy Obama is just that, a coward. As for the BS, you, and your ilk, are the BS spewers, pal.
You libtards will make great victims when ISIS arrives on our soil. And, you will squeal like good little pigs.
You libtards will make great victims when ISIS arrives on our soil. And, you will squeal like good little pigs.
I second the motion on this Turdnest (what a great name) you need to read something of the C*******t Manifesto...try the Mancurian President by Aaron Klein...just the 1st 4 chapters convinced me...where our F**e came from & what he is doing to America. All facts are documented...it's not an easy read about 400 pages & I eventually got through all of it..weakening our military is one of the basic items of bringing us down...
Mar 8, 2015 20:49:26 #
CowboyMilt wrote:
I call him the F**E & I bet everyone reading this knows who "him" is...the F**e has been in a destroy America mode ever since he took office & tearing down our military has been at the top of his list. The real question I have is many people have been noticing this as long as I have, many congressmen/women & why has no major movement been initiated to rid of "him" or stop "him"??? Is it a BIG Secret???
Because congress is either in on it or petrified of political suicide. Anyone who speaks against O'Loser is reprimanded, threatened, there suddenly are reports leaked that end the persons career, or they mysteriously die. Good enough reason to shut your mouth I guess.
Mar 8, 2015 20:58:56 #
Quick history check will show that this is what happens during any/every Democratic Administration. They simply have no concept of what the military is, does or has been established for. Hillary believed the Marines were fancily dressed bellhops. Then someone drops a Pearl Harbor attack on us and suddenly we can't give them enough to bail our sorry butts out of another fire.
Mar 9, 2015 05:29:17 #
The decline in our military can not all be blamed on Obama. That moron that was President before Obama has a few fingers in the pie of blame. It was his policies that created a lot of this damn mess we have today. The only thing Obama is doing is adding more fuel to the fire. The American people can share a lot of the blame because of their apathy and watching the parade go by while they sit on their butts. There you have it. It is known as t***h.
Mar 9, 2015 08:09:33 #
samtheyank wrote:
The decline in our military can not all be blamed on Obama. That moron that was President before Obama has a few fingers in the pie of blame. It was his policies that created a lot of this damn mess we have today. The only thing Obama is doing is adding more fuel to the fire. The American people can share a lot of the blame because of their apathy and watching the parade go by while they sit on their butts. There you have it. It is known as t***h.
T***h??? Nah, not hardly, pal. Bush had to use a military that was severely reduced by Clinton. Clinton had eliminated one whole Army Division, plus other cuts.
Mar 9, 2015 10:25:23 #
JMHO wrote:
T***h??? Nah, not hardly, pal. Bush had to use a military that was severely reduced by Clinton. Clinton had eliminated one whole Army Division, plus other cuts.
Dems don't know what T***H IS...the whole Obama administration has been one lie after another WAKE UP AMERICA!
Mar 9, 2015 12:01:11 #
samtheyank wrote:
The decline in our military can not all be blamed on Obama. That moron that was President before Obama has a few fingers in the pie of blame. It was his policies that created a lot of this damn mess we have today. The only thing Obama is doing is adding more fuel to the fire. The American people can share a lot of the blame because of their apathy and watching the parade go by while they sit on their butts. There you have it. It is known as t***h.
Hello Sam,
Welcome to the forum. It is not really a forum, it is only one more "I h**e Obama" page. You will find out very soon that anything posted gets pirated to be Obama fault.
If you post facts, several, like IMHO, simply insist they are lies, those event never happened, that was never said. It is the presidents fault, his fault his fault..
They know no other line to repeat, they picked up all they parrot from Fox news..
I simply got tired of repeating the same information to them and now I mostly only watch for the amusement of fools vain attempts to express themselves. They never get past the STOP THAT, stage. they stand for nothing only impede the ideas of others. They consider statements from the super rich to be the word of god and claim to have religious ideals which they only talk about and are unable to demonstrate. They are as a group, a PPPP, that is people of piss poor protoplasm..
Only h**e and obstruction from this group..
But again welcome and have fun...
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