The Pentagon announced its budget today for the next fiscal year - actually cutting some costs, about 100,000 troops, mothballing ships, and parking some of the Air Force inventory.
This may actually be a good move. The administration wants to shift its focus to Drones and a bigger presence in the Western Pacific, which are good ideas. The Pentagon bureaucracy is bloated and stuck in its ways. There will be no Soviet invasion through the Fulda Gap, so its time to ease back a bit on a large conventional force. There aren't too many M1A2 main battle tanks fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan are there? There are no F-22 Raptors fighting it out with anyone's Islamic Air Force, huh?
A smarter, more hi-tech force is what we need.
And this is no massive isolationist draw-down (like post WWI) that many of Obama's critics would have you believe. We have enough firepower to destroy the world five times over. Lets be smarter, quicker, more mobile and more capable of responding to asymmetric threats.
Like this - we're one step closer to a real invisibility cloak It may soon be reality, not just science fiction. Cool stuff
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