That is important that they forget numbers. Do you want to focus on that issue or how you see it Going Forward . Mac thornberry i agree, i think his focus on building the military is exactly right as was the piece you wrote that chris mentioned. Numbers do matter. Part of the reason we are challenged right now is we dont have enough aircraft i will just continue with that example. We are all flying more and more hours, and that is part of the cycle of how hard it is to get things ready if you dont have enough, and what you have got, you are flying the wings off of. What else is true, i was recently in the asiapacific region, you can have more capable ships we had this debate all the time with the Obama Administration. It can need more capable but only in one place at one time. You have to have numbers to cover geography. These days, when you have such a huge array of threats from russia and china, iran, north korea, terrorists that not only have gone away but are spreading out in more
And secondarily, the future is made of swarms of small things. How do we get the pentagon to realize you want to buy 1000 toyotas instead of one lexus . They keep missing the boat on that and creating giant aircraft carriers. One torpedo takes out a huge amount of our capability. Thats crazy. Mac thornberry well, both good questions. Ive already forgot the first one. Oh, the two im sorry. This years defense bill will abolish the qdr. Too much time, effort for nothing. And part of our frustration is, that it becomes, became a budget justification document, not really a strategy document. And so, that really gets to what you are talking about. We have adjusted the two mc kind of approach just based on the budgets, rather than the other way around, rather than looking at the world, trying to see what, ok, what sizing construct makes sense for the world were facing, and then develop the budgets to support them. So we have provided a different system of kind of thinking about the world with
There have been open source pictures of the extensive nature of the buildup there your conclusion, i think, is right. This is not about simply propping up the assad regime but i think thats a component of it. This is a fundamental shift and i believe mr. Putin understands political math the same way i do. I view it as having to suffer for 15 more months, he views it as an opportunity for that same period of time. And hes heck bent on changing the dynamic. They will now have a foothold in the Eastern Mediterranean for the foreseeable future. Our secretary of state holds a meeting to deconflict airspace when the russians attack in the middle east. That is a remarkable change from whether it was eisenhower but you dont to go to a republican. It was a change from a consistent u. S. Policy, democrat, republican president s alike that said the soviets, now russians, will not have a foothold in will not be the Regional Power inside the United States and we now have the iranian russian axis th
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