{"id":40036,"date":"2014-02-26T11:09:02","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T16:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40036"},"modified":"2014-02-26T11:09:02","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T16:09:02","slug":"defense-budget-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40036","title":{"rendered":"Defense budget battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press<\/a> reports that the Obama Administration has a tough fight ahead if they try to adopt Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s plan to slash the Defense budget by cutting troops and aircraft that have no plan to replace;<\/p>\n

The skepticism from both Republicans and Democrats augured poorly for Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s vision of shrinking the Army to its smallest size in three-quarters of a century and creating a nimbler force more suited to future threats than the large land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last decade. Tuesday’s advance of a new veterans bill also suggested Congress may be more interested in increasing military spending in a midterm election year.<\/p>\n

The cuts “will weaken our nation’s security while the threats we face around the world are becoming more dangerous and complex,” Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham, two leading GOP hawks, said in a joint statement. “Now is not the time to embrace a defense posture reminiscent of the years prior to World War II,” they said, without outlining substitute cost reductions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Fox News<\/a>, the Congressional Budget Office speculates that the whole reason behind the cuts is so that the administration can spend more money on domestic programs, ignoring defense needs;<\/p>\n

Rep. Chris Van Hollen , D-Md., told Fox News the draw down from two wars is a logical time to save defense money. “We do not need for the defense of our country to be able to have a defense doctrine that calls for fighting two land wars at the same time,” he said.<\/p>\n

But history is filled with hard lessons in disarmament. Churchill warned a pacifist Britain, worn out from massive loss of life in World War I, of its unpreparedness for war with Germany as early as 1934. In 1936, he said in a speech to a disinterested Parliament, “A lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes… until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong… these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”<\/p>\n

McKeon offers a contemporary reprise of Churchill\u2019s words. “The price is going to be paid for this whether it’s in the Middle East, whether it’s in the Pacific, whether it’s in Europe,” he said. “I don’t know where. I don’t know when. I don’t know how, but some bad actor is going to challenge us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The capability for fighting two land wars existed long before 9\/11, it existed because we had an enemy that was a global threat, much like the threat, on a smaller scale of al Qaeda which is gaining ground in the middle east and fighting, with some success in Africa. They’ve already secured portions of Iraq and Afghanistan isn’t far behind, as well as Syria. Did I mention that Iran is flexing it’s puny muscles off of our coast?<\/p>\n

My Obama apologist friends on Facebook tell me that this proposal from the Obama Administration isn’t his fault – that he’s getting bad advice from his generals who are secretly working for the defense industry. I’d almost believe it if they could show me just one instance when Obama ever listened to his generals in regards to anything. Well, that and the fact that I predicted this very scenario way back in 2008 before Obama ever took office. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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