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
That different can take from it. I think what it means is that, yes, the conventional wisdom that theres a relationship between the money campaigns have and the likelihood of victory, which people have assumed and political scientists have said yes this relationship exists, that is confirmed. Even when turnout is higher and more instability is expected, it exithses. But this doesnt take into account other factors. Its how much campaigns thems raised, doesnt include super p. A. C. S or any of the external independent expenditures that go into Political Campaigns. And there are a slew of other factors at play in any particular race. If the candidate has some terrible gaffe, a scandal that emerges, none of that stuff is accounted for in this calculation. This is purely what the campaign raised versus the vote total. Lets talk about outside spending and the Election Results from this offyear election. Look at Michael Bloomberg, liberal causes spent 2. 3 . Ion, thomas steye; million for lib
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