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From the article: New spending is needed on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; cyberspace capabilities; joint coalition command and control operations; long range strike capabilities; and electric and direct-energy weapons to ensure a continued technical edge, Edelman said.
I have no problem with strengthening our capabilities, but I want to know where the money is going. Republicans want cuts in discretionary spending; the Democrats don't. I could side with either, depending on the details.
That sounds like the good kind of spending, along with R&D.
That sounds like the good kind of spending, along with R&D.
Yeah, R & D is always good, but what are we getting for our money? If cuts are made, I want to know whose money is taken and given to whom. Republicans like the term 'redistribution of wealth,' and here we have an example of redistribution. Like I said, I could go either way. I need more than the rhetoric.
Yea, why do we need all those soldiers and equipment?
NATO and the UN should be the dudes removing dictators and going after war criminals. Even then it's tricky; we remove and kill Saddam and a major civil war erupts in his country.
we need the people and equipment to have a strong military
nato/un??? who do you think nato/un is nato/un has ZERO troops...
when """NATO""" sends troops in they TASK the other countries (ie USA) to supply those said troops
much of the spending is MAINTAINING EQUIPMENT
MAINTAINING and BETTERING the BARRACKS for the SOLDIERS
PAY for the soldiers
soldiers get less and less everyyear, because of inflation.....
our soldiers are severely underpaid....
we need a strong READY army, ready to defend not only our physical country, but all of our countries interests
right now you have things going on in Ukrane, Iraq, Syria, Honduras, western Africa, Latvia, Afghanistan, Egypt, Yemen , Libya
each of these requires some manpower...our military is shorthanded , especially for the dangerous jobs we have.... less than 1% of all americans have ever even joined the military....less than 4% are even QUALIFIED to join
why do the democrats constantly want to cut the military and hurt the soldiers????
Right now we need to take far better care of our current soldiers and the veterans. We do not need to keep up most of this industrial socialism nor do we need to be militarily involved in (quote) "Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Honduras, western Africa, Latvia, Afghanistan, Egypt, Yemen , Libya". All of these involvements are just excuses to keep shoveling money to a few of the pentagon's selected pet industries.
Well from the latest news that I hear we are going to be ramping up and going after ISIS in a 3-year war. So our dictator-in-chief is going to need more bodies and equipment to feed into the meat grinder. That costs money. He is going to ask congress for appropriations and to wage war. Don't shoot the messenger, listen to the news. It's funny, all of the MEN that were executed by ISIS and nothing happens. One American female dies at the hands of ISIS and now we are ready to go to war.....
That's stupid. Why do we need to spend that much? You're just twisting numbers to make it seem like our spending is inline with our peers. It's not, plain and simple. We are getting ripped off and no military engagement since WWII has accomplished it's goal.
Where the problem comes in is GDP for the U.S. includes the money created out of thin air. Other countries can't do that.
This is what Republicans do. How many jobs will it create? I'm undecided with regard to military spending, so I can go either way. If the spending gets circulated through job creation, I'll support it. If it's just going to corporate coffers, then I'll oppose it.
Liberals - where paying high school dropout not to work is more important than paying someone to protect the country.
The answer to off shoring jobs is not war.
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