DoD’s “duh moment”
The Washington Times reports that a panel which the Defense Department commissioned to evaluate the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) told them what we’ve been saying for years; they’re cutting too much too quickly to keep the nation safe from the number of threats that are popping up.
It also said the shrinking U.S. armed forces, which are being downsized to fit that strategy and budget cuts, is a “serious strategic misstep on the part of the United States.” The forces’ numbers spelled out in Mr. Obama’s QDR are “inadequate given the future strategic and operational environment.”
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The panel’s report said the past several years of budget cuts and mandated reduction in personnel and weapons have stirred deep unease among allies who would count on the U.S. in a crisis.
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It calls the defense cuts “dangerous” as “global threats and challenges are rising.” The experts point to China’s and Russia’s new territorial claims, nuclear proliferation by Iran and North Korea and al Qaeda’s rapid rise in Iraq.
The panel knocks Mr. Obama’s QDR for reducing the military’s global mission from being able to defeat two enemies nearly simultaneously to defeating one and denying the objectives of a second. The report calls on Mr. Obama to expand this overriding mission statement.
I could have saved them the money for a panel and I’m sure that many of you could, too. The problem is that this administration will ignore this report. They’ve already decided what the future looks like and it’s all been factored in to their vision for our national security. Now if only the rest of the world will cooperate.
The reason that we got what we wanted and the world was relatively peaceful was because we were feared as a military power, but everyone wants to be respected these days, unfortunately respect comes in second place to fear.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Military issues
…I suspect that the Administration response will be to fire the people writing the report and hire new ones who will write the correct report.
Mike
No doubt. And I can think of a current U.S. Senator from a certain western state who is a recent graduate of the Army War College who is just the man to plagi, I mean write, that report.
democrat/liberal/progressive strategy.
1. Gut the military for any/no reason (except to fund more social welfare)
2. Don’t cut missions. Actually increase stupid useless missions (Balkans, Somalia ring any bells)
3. When military is REALLY needed, a republican has to rebuild it (Reagan, Bush II) by essentially throwing money at it (which causes democrats to scream)
4. Democrats claim military success is a result of their reforms (see Bill Clinton re Afghanistan)
5. Gut military AGAIN as soon as possible.
I’ve been through this cycle twice (came in during the Reagan years) and don’t think I can go through it again. Might be time to retire
ditto!
Early 90’s redux. Is thus going to start being a routine thing every 20 years? After WWII gut the military (Task Force Smith in Korea anybody?). Mid 70s, mid 90s, 2014-15. Feel sorry for the troops in 2035…
That’s why I’m going to stick it out. I hope others will too because someone has to be there to rebuild this thing once the current idiots are no longer in charge.
Does this get filed under ‘No Shit, Sherlock’?
And for what it’s worth, people increasingly think poorly of bodaprez’s foreign policy.
http://news.msn.com/us/poll-foreign-policy-no-longer-obama-strong-point?gt1=51501
Not that he ever had any strong points, mind you.
DOD only does this because they know I stand ready.
sincerely
John “Faker 6” Giduck
“…a panel which the Defense Department commissioned to evaluate the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) told them what we’ve been saying for years; they’re cutting too much too quickly to keep the nation safe from the number of threats that are popping up.”
And we must recognize that they did the study in a pair of buildings built to house the Pentagon overflow because the Pentagon itself (capacity: 25,000) was too small.
Who’s getting drawn down again?
Fit is going to hit the shan before too long. Then they’ll be calling back people who were let go. But those people, if they have replacement jobs, may tell The Big Them to go pound sand.