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re: Shrink the military? Can right and left agree on this?
Posted on 1/24/14 at 8:35 pm to kingbob
Posted on 1/24/14 at 8:35 pm to kingbob
It's beyond time to shrink our military. We spend more on it then the next ten nations and 9 of them are allies.
However, if you are going to shrink the military then you have to shrink their mission as well. Currently we have troops all over the world. US navy carriers now spend 9 months deployed due to shortfalls in combat ships, but continuing the same missions when I was in the Navy. You cannot do one without the other.
However, if you are going to shrink the military then you have to shrink their mission as well. Currently we have troops all over the world. US navy carriers now spend 9 months deployed due to shortfalls in combat ships, but continuing the same missions when I was in the Navy. You cannot do one without the other.
Posted on 1/24/14 at 8:41 pm to asurob1
What I am saying is reducing international presence with ground forces while bolstering Naval efforts.
Reducing army spending while pumping up the navy.
In the end, a sizable net reduction in spending, mission, and scope. Rather than playing world police, we would be working mostly as a deterrent, ensuring free trade on the high seas, and honoring our treaties with Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.
The big money hogs like Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, and Europe would be eliminated.
I would like to spend some of that money on space exploration (bold new Space initiative including manned missions to Mars, probes to Triton and Europa, and setting up an eventual manned station on the Moon) while lifting many of the restrictions currently in place on private space exploration.
That way, we have our cake (a powerful military capable of responding to threats around the world rapidly), and we get to eat it too (reduced spending, reduced military deaths in pointless wars, and continued technological innovation)..
Reducing army spending while pumping up the navy.
In the end, a sizable net reduction in spending, mission, and scope. Rather than playing world police, we would be working mostly as a deterrent, ensuring free trade on the high seas, and honoring our treaties with Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea.
The big money hogs like Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, and Europe would be eliminated.
I would like to spend some of that money on space exploration (bold new Space initiative including manned missions to Mars, probes to Triton and Europa, and setting up an eventual manned station on the Moon) while lifting many of the restrictions currently in place on private space exploration.
That way, we have our cake (a powerful military capable of responding to threats around the world rapidly), and we get to eat it too (reduced spending, reduced military deaths in pointless wars, and continued technological innovation)..
Posted on 1/24/14 at 8:43 pm to asurob1
quote:Sadly, any thought that moving a repub out of the white house and installing a Dem would achieve the above goal has gone poof. We just seem incapable of not meddling.
However, if you are going to shrink the military then you have to shrink their mission as well.
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