Talking about cutting military spending you have to be more specific. If you're talking about stupid weapon systems like the crusader or the navy's LCS or the joint strike fighter, then yeah. But (and I'm no army proponent) the Army is stretched like it's never been stretched before right now. What we're doing is a 12 division deployment of our 10 division army, and it's crazy. We need more boots on the ground, and they need to be better trained.
We also need to re-open the Army's Peacekeeping Institute, it was really stupid of the current administration to shut it down, especially when we're racking up commitments left and right, and now we're talking about going into West Africa...
Oh yes, and what do we need new nuclear powered submarines for? The chinese? They're DECADES behind our oldest active sub technology, and they're probably the closest in terms of potential antagonists...
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