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It's only going to get worse as they not only cut the military budget but then spend what's left on home town pork rather than what the military actually needs and asks for.
We need to get out of Afghan rather than building up only to cut and run when it becomes unpopular and people have died for nothing.
It's not a funding problem at all. It's a logistical problem. The equipment is being shipped in, but because of the limited number of places to ship to, the equipment is being shipped in after the soldiers.
I suppose it was the Democrats that didn't supply enough body armor in Iraq.
I suppose it was the Democrats that was late in providing up-armored HUMVEES!
As for the budget cuts, unless you think that scrapping a new Presidential helicopter, curtailing the F-22, and cutting "Star Wars" is going to hurt ground troops?
You guys not only can't mount a decent argument you can't even get your facts straight.
This is what you get when a republican is in charge:
"One soldier said troops were forced to root through rubbish to reinforce their armoured vehicles.
"Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to uparmour our vehicles?" Army Spc Thomas Wilson asked.""
It's not a funding problem at all. It's a logistical problem. The equipment is being shipped in, but because of the limited number of places to ship to, the equipment is being shipped in after the soldiers.
Exactly right. does that make it a bigger blunder though?
It's only going to get worse as they not only cut the military budget but then spend what's left on home town pork rather than what the military actually needs and asks for.
We need to get out of Afghan rather than building up only to cut and run when it becomes unpopular and people have died for nothing.
President Obama has proposed an increase in the military budget.
" The Obama administration has given the Pentagon a $527 billion limit, excluding war costs, for its fiscal 2010 defense budget, an official with the White House’s Office of Management and Budget said Monday.
If enacted, that would be an 8 percent increase from the $487.7 billion allocated for fiscal 2009, and it would match what the Bush administration estimated last year for the Pentagon in fiscal 2010.
So Obama proposes that the U.S. spend $40 billion more this year than it spent last year. "
Exactly right. does that make it a bigger blunder though?
Logistical problems aren't blunders at all. They are logistical problems.
You can posit that the equipment should have been sent in first. Which could lead to another logistical problem--where to put that equipment? How to get that equipment into storage? How to guard that equipment?
Given the ramp-up in Taliban activity, the DOD has to make choices about where to deploy manpower. Having troops on the ground move equipment around and guard it probably isn't an ideal use of manpower.
Bringing in more manpower first, resolves the storage problem and the other issues. It's not an ideal solution, but then logistics doesn't seek ideal solutions, only the most practical solutions.
In General and Army Chief of Staff Matthew Ridgway's words, why he did not want to involve the American military in Vietnam. Although his observations (derived from actual combat experience, unlike our current corp of **s kissing chicken s*** generals) relate to Vietnam's jungle environment, his prescient words should be read and his procedures before we decide to involve ourselves in any military operation. We are flying in the face of hard-earned experience by past American combat troops and leaders and our current military is paying dearly for this wilfull ignorance.
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