{"id":41035,"date":"2014-03-29T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=41035"},"modified":"2014-03-29T01:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T05:58:13","slug":"you-get-what-you-pay-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=41035","title":{"rendered":"You Get What You Pay For"},"content":{"rendered":"

The effects of Defense wide cuts is far reaching. As this <\/span>US News<\/a> Article discusses.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re an 11-carrier Navy in a 15-carrier world.\u201d Army General Martin Dempsey said.<\/p>\n

According to Marine General John Kelly, his command is, \u201cunable to get after 74 percent of suspected maritime drug smuggling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our budgets are being cut so tight that we are unable to accomplish the ever increasing global missions that we are being tasked to accomplish. This is an ultimate consequence of the success of our military and the generations that came before. They have established a sense of security within our borders that fosters the idea that we no longer need the military. That is a nice idea, and 9\/11 should have been a reminder of that, but as a nation we have a short term memory.<\/p>\n

There will come a point when we as a nation are again reminded that the world is not a friendly place and we can\u2019t solve problems by throwing money at them. Well, throwing money at other people, while failing to invest in ourselves, our infrastructure and our ability to defend it. The issues in Crimea are highlighting the failure of that thought process, and I hope that we won\u2019t have to solve that problem with physical intervention. Stalin, however, does seem to be trying the west\/America\u2019s patience, just to see what he can get away with.<\/p>\n

At the rate we are going, however, with more budget cuts, we won\u2019t have much left to fight with. Our military will be poorly equipped, understaffed and under trained. Hopefully, our enemies will just be happy that we keep developing new iPhones and still make great movies, and just leave us to our own devices.<\/p>\n

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