Obama’s noises about abandoning nuclear weapons, his release of torture memos, and his sucking up to Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and Cuba at the Summit of the Americas all have the same source: his belief that the U.S’s disproportionate strength, global perceptions of our arrogance, and our shoddy record all combine to make the rest [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cold war’
Obama’s Quest for Global Popularity
Posted in foreign policy, Latin America, obama, tagged Arms Control, Bush, Chavez, cold war, Europe, Military, North Korea, Nuclear Freeze, Nuclear Weapons, Ortega, Panama, realism on 20 Apr 2009 | 7 Comments »
The Deepest Cut
Posted in Military, obama, Pentagon, Politics, tagged Budget, cold war, debt, deficit, democrats, DoD, F-22, Osprey, Pelosi, Reagan, rumsfeld, Stimulus on 3 Mar 2009 | 5 Comments »
I would not be so offended if Obama or any other politician said: we’ve spent too much money on too many things for too long; we must economize, and the Defense Department too must learn to be more efficient with public funds. But Obama, instead, has said we must spend far and wide on everything [...]
Rusmfeld: Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
Posted in counterinsurgency, Iraq, Military, rumsfeld, tagged Abrams, afghanistan, air force, algeria, army, CAP Platoon, cold war, counterinsurgency, democracy, elections, Iraq, manpower, marines, Military, navy, Petraeus, recruitment, retention, rumsfeld, Sanchez, soviet union, strategy, surge, tactics, transformation, Vietnam, Westmoreland on 28 Sep 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In the wake of the Cold War, the US military was cut dramatically. We went from a 750,000 man Army to one of about 475,000 today. The Navy and Air Force undertook similar cuts. We went from spending about 5.5% of GDP on the military to 3%. One consequence has been that the “all volunteer [...]
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