{"id":56064,"date":"2014-10-27T08:47:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T12:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56064"},"modified":"2014-10-27T08:47:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T12:47:22","slug":"chuck-hagels-big-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56064","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Hagel’s big idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wayne sends us a link to Defense News<\/a> in which they report that Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, had a big idea the other day – he could save the Army if they started a program for coastal defenses. <\/p>\n

In a speech to a military and industry audience that mostly shied away from program specifics, the secretary suggested the Army should try and \u201cbroaden its role by leveraging its current suite of long-range precision-guided missiles, rockets, artillery and air defense systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hagel said these capabilities \u201cwould provide multiple benefits, such as hardening the defenses of US installations; enabling greater mobility of Navy Aegis destroyers and other joint force assets; and helping ensure the free flow of commerce.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also insisted that \u201cthis concept is worthy of consideration going forward\u201d and that \u201csuch a mission is not as foreign to the Army as it might seem \u2014 after the War of 1812, the Army was tasked with America\u2019s coastal defense for over 100 years.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That makes complete sense since we’ve been invaded by sea so many times in our history. The Iranians almost sailed a warship to our shores recently, and who knows how soon ISIS will sail it’s Navy in our direction and cut off our commerce. And then there’s the Taliban which has made great strides in it’s swimming donkey bombs program recently.<\/p>\n

I guess they’ll be reopening Fort Monroe and it’s Coast Artillery School that the Army foolishly closed in 1946.<\/p>\n

With the Middle East in flames and the troubles in Africa, it only makes sense that we return to a 19th century strategy. Maybe they should dig a trench-works along the entire East Coast and put infantrymen with fixed bayonets every 5 meters or so. <\/p>\n

I know that this administration wants the wars to end in the Middle East and Africa, but why are they acting like the wars have already ended?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wayne sends us a link to Defense News in which they report that Secretary of Defense, … Chuck Hagel’s big idea<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}