Trump’s National Defense Strategy Has the Pentagon Popping Champagne
Posted By Andrew J. Bacevich On January 24, 2018 @ 12:01 am In | 25 Comments
Here’s what we can say about the Trump administration’s just-released National Defense Strategy [1]: it’s not a strategy and its subject is not defense.
Bearing the imprimatur of Pentagon chief James Mattis, the NDS—at least the unclassified summary that we citizens are permitted to see—is in essence a brief for increasing the size of the U.S. military budget. Implicit in the document is this proposition: more spending will make the armed forces of the United States “stronger†and the United States “safer.†Simply put, the NDS is all about funneling more bucks to the Pentagon.
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