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Lawmakers slash funding for Marine Corps’ long-range fires development December 23, 2020 Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit drive a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) toward their firing point after conducting an amphibious landing from the amphibious transport dock USS Green Bay (LPD 20). (photo by Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser/U.S. Marine Corps) “The logic here doesn’t make much sense,” Wisconsin Republican Rep. Michael Gallagher, a House Armed Services Committee member, said in a statement to Defense News. “This year’s spending package increases funding where the Marine Corps sought reductions and makes reductions where they sought increases. If the Commandant doesn’t have the resources to implement his planning guidance a strategy that has bipartisan support it’s impossible to actually implement the National Defense Strategy.”
High-ranking House lawmakers press to restore funds to Marine Corps long-range fires efforts December 15, 2020 A Landing Craft Air Cushion with the amphibious transport dock USS Green Bay (LPD 20), carrying High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, approaches the beach off of Okinawa, Japan on Jan. 31, 2020. The 31st MEU’s ability to conduct HIMARS amphibious landings provides a lethal capability in support of amphibious operations. (Photo by Lance Cpl. Joshua Sechser/U.S. Marine Corps) WASHINGTON A group of high-ranking House lawmakers are pressing to restore funds cut in the proposed fiscal 2021 defense spending bills for Marine Corps efforts to develop long-range precision fires capabilities.
so why is he so bullish on america? listen in. what to you are the key indicators of its strength and success. because americans look at washington and they can t quite imagine success. they did not look at the kind of stuff we do in day to day journalism, which is the blockade of congress, the polarization of parties. these kind of mythologies are part of daily life in politics and other countries too. but i looked at two kinds of factors, one was possessions, asset in the bank. nuclear weapons, projection forces, navys. and then you look at these things and you wonder how can anybody talk about china being a great power, when you see a u.s. navy which dwarfs the next 14 navys, when you look at projection forces for the united states has ten, 20 times as many
listen in. what to you are the key indicators of its strength and success? you know, americans look at washington and can t imagine success? yeah. i deliberately did not look at the stuff we do in day-to-day jurnlism, congress, polarization of parties, et cetera. i mean these kind of pathologies are part of daily life in politics in other countries too. what i looked at two kinds of factors. one was possessions, asset in the banks, or nuclear weapons, projection forces, navies, and then you look at these things and you wonder how could anybody talk about china being a great power when you see a u.s. navy which dwarfs the next 14 navies. when you look at projection force s where the united states has 10, 20 times as many bombers and troop transporters, et cetera. that s the cash in the bank. but then i thought, well, what