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I would tend to agree that the military in the US has been increasingly underfunded and understaffed since 9/11.
It was the day before 9/11 that Rumsfeld held his meeting with the top brass at the Pentagon and began the process of hollowing out the military. He managed to do this hollowing out to the best of his ability. All non essential (and even some essential) services have been outsourced. The US Military has been largely privatized.
So while military spending has increased (in the form of transferring public money into private hands) the spending on Military has decreased.
I think the US needs to get back into the business of looking after its own Military.
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