“Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the United States was too strong.” --Ronald Reagan
This is an excellent piece by a former DOD official on the current state of the American military. The gist of his article describing the readiness of our military paints a dismal picture:
"The Army is smaller than it was in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. The Navy has half the combat vessels it had 15 years ago. American combat aircraft—Air Force and Navy—are rusting on the runways. The American nuclear arsenal, last updated in the early 1990s, ages while Russia modernizes its arsenal and China expands its global reach. Combat tested junior and mid-level officers and non-commissioned officers, vital to the future leadership of our armed forces, are opting for more promising careers elsewhere. Senior officers courageous enough to resist the inanity of politically correct polices are retiring—if they haven’t been forced out already."
The quote from President Reagan that prefaces his article is spot on and we ignore it at our extreme peril. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of history understand this. It would seem that democracies have an inevitable death wish. Very strange.
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