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How Big Does America's Military Need to be?

posted by martyb on Friday March 24 2017, @11:26PM   
from the which-swamps-are-we-draining? dept.

AnonTechie writes:

President Trump has proposed a $54 billion increase in defense spending, which he said would be "one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history."

Past administrations have increased military spending, but typically to fulfil a specific mission. Jimmy Carter expanded operations in the Persian Gulf. Ronald Reagan pursued an arms race with the Soviet Union, and George W. Bush waged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mr. Trump has not articulated a new mission that would require a military spending increase. This has left analysts wondering what goals he has in mind. Erin M. Simpson, a national security consultant, called Mr. Trump's plans "a budget in search of a strategy."

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/22/us/is-americas-military-big-enough.html

Donald J. Trump - Military Readiness Remarks

[Related]: 2017 Outlook for Navy Shipbuilding

What do you think about the proposed increase in military spending ? Does USA really need more weapons ?

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• Re:Yes and No Re:Yes and No (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday March 25 2017, @12:16AM (2 children)

  by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday March 25 2017, @12:16AM (#483941) Homepage

  " According to what standard? Americans are still living the WW2 fantasies where they carpet-bomb entire cities and leave nothing standing and call themselves 'most powerful'. "

  No, that is incorrect. If we did carpet-bomb entire cities and leave nothing standing like in the good ol' days, then we would still be the most powerful.

  " You Americans are good at fighting the last war and have no imagination "

  Unfortunately, Americans are held to a higher standard of civilization than the savage goat-fuckers we are fighting. There is a lot of other complicated politics going on, like CIA arming the same goat-fuckers our military fights and not being able to nuke the Middle-East because of foreign lobbyist bribery and the petrodollar. If we said, "fuck it" and nuked the entire Middle-East including Israel, then 99% of the world's problems would be solved overnight.

  " You Americans work for the jews. "

  Many of our congressmen and judicial branch do, but there are many others who don't. The AIPAC/SPLC/Mossad cancers will be difficult but possible to remove.

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• Re:Yes and No (Score: 4, Insightful) by cubancigar11 on Saturday March 25 2017, @02:42AM

  by cubancigar11 (330) on Saturday March 25 2017, @02:42AM (#484011) Homepage Journal

  If we said, "fuck it" and nuked... then 99% of the world's problems would be solved overnight.

  Because that has worked before? Or you mean the problem of not starting ww3? Or problem of americans still living?

  Damn fantastic morons of America. Believe me the kind of navel gazing Americans spend their life doing, is the only problem that would be solved by nuking anything.

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• Re:Yes and No (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Saturday March 25 2017, @04:25AM

  by c0lo (156) on Saturday March 25 2017, @04:25AM (#484024) Journal

  Unfortunately, Americans are held to a higher standard of civilization than the savage goat-fuckers we are fighting.

  Really? To you, is it less civilized to fuck a goat than to fuck a child?

  Because it is known the "higher standard of civilization" didn't stop using your citizens from [wikipedia.org] using [google.com.au] children [huffingtonpost.com] in Bosnia/Iraq/Afghanistan. Even more, they used your money [cnn.com] to pay for the services.

  I gather your morals let you sleep well knowing your money went for the "entrainment" of the "good guys"?

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