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Offline rangerrebew

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‘Not prepared’: Congressional panel calls for huge defense buildup
« on: July 29, 2024, 12:41:40 pm »
‘Not prepared’: Congressional panel calls for huge defense buildup
By Noah Robertson
 Jul 29, 2024, 08:37 AM
 
A Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) launches from an Air Force B-1B Lancer during flight testing in August 2013. (DARPA)
America’s odds of fighting a major war are the highest in 80 years, and its military isn’t prepared for one.

This was the finding of a bipartisan panel tasked by Congress to review U.S. defense strategy. Its nearly 100-page report reveals a crisis of confidence in American national security.


The commission chides a Pentagon it considers too plodding, a Congress it considers too partisan and multiple administrations it says have been too complacent to address threats from China, Russia and countries in the Middle East.

“The nation was last prepared for such a fight during the Cold War, which ended 35 years ago,” the report reads. “It is not prepared today.”

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2024/07/29/not-prepared-congressional-panel-calls-for-huge-defense-buildup/
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Re: ‘Not prepared’: Congressional panel calls for huge defense buildup
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2024, 12:44:52 pm »
Since democrats now claim Kamala is in on all the major decisions, what was her position on letting the US Military get run-down?  With her green extremist agenda, I can't picture her supporting anything military.
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Re: ‘Not prepared’: Congressional panel calls for huge defense buildup
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2024, 01:10:00 pm »
... shouldn't have wasted all that money on those Little Crappy Ships (LSC - Littoral Combat Ship)

Pentagon procurement management is too corrupt and incompetent.
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Re: ‘Not prepared’: Congressional panel calls for huge defense buildup
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2024, 01:13:05 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on July 29, 2024, 12:41:40 pm
“The nation was last prepared for such a fight during the Cold War, which ended 35 years ago,” the report reads. “It is not prepared today.”

We're not prepared to fight the extant Cold War against Russia and China. And the realms we're engaged in are often asymmetric.

Russia attacks our computer systems.

China sends us fentanyl and their spies steal everything they can get their hands on. 
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Re: ‘Not prepared’: Congressional panel calls for huge defense buildup
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2024, 01:17:12 pm »
'They' may be planning to start a World War and lose.  To usher in their new world order.
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