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Reagan inherited a military that didn't trust sentries to have bullets in war zones.
8 years later GHWBush inherited a military that won the Hundred Hours War.
Reagan used the military buildup to end his recession. Much of the money he spent did not make for a better military because it was for fighting a Cold War
Bush kicked Saddam out of Kuwait in 100 days, Carter could have done the same, there was minimal resistance
1. Military spending was part of the recovery.
2. Building a military to fight (and thus deter hot war) the Cold War during the Cold War is building a better military. It is incredible that you managed to Denial this.
3. It was Reagan's air and fast transports that enabled the rapid deployment and build up.
4. It only SEEMED like minimal resistance because Reagan's military and GHWBush's leadership didn't give Hussein the slightest opening.
I saw what happened to Reagan's military build up. A large number of the projects got cancelled under Bush. Cold War ended, mission changed, equipment was obsolete
Reagan escallated a buildup against a threat that turned out to be empty.
The Soviets were not what we were told. They were nowhere close to the military power that we were. Their equipment was poorly designed and poorly maintained. Troops were poorly trained and had low morale. Their Navy could hardly leave port
But fear mongerers convinced us that they were a major threat and we needed a major buildup
2. Building a military to fight (and thus deter hot war) the Cold War during the Cold War is building a better military. It is incredible that you managed to Denial this.
3. It was Reagan's air and fast transports that enabled the rapid deployment and build up.
4. It only SEEMED like minimal resistance because Reagan's military and GHWBush's leadership didn't give Hussein the slightest opening.
5. Cold War projects being cancelled due to victory is not a problem.
6. The "Empty Threat" is the lefty response to the Reagan Victory. Before his victory he was ridiculed for raising tensions and predicting victory. After wards it was imperative that leftists think of ways to explain away this massive accomplishment. Many lies and irrelevancies were put forth and swallowed by the Willful Dupes.
7. Fear was the rational response to thousands of nukes, planes and tanked being aimed at US. Only a madman or a fool was not afraid of that during the Cold War.
OK ...let's go there
Reagan lied like Bush lied
Without the consequences....we just wasted money
Reagan told us the Soviets were a big boogeyman and we needed to build up our military. History has shown they were a paper tiger
Russian military was poorly designed, poorly maintained, poor logistics, horrible morale
Conservatives give him credit for destroying the Soviets....he just exploited it
Reagan used the military buildup to end his recession. Much of the money he spent did not make for a better military because it was for fighting a Cold War
Bush kicked Saddam out of Kuwait in 100 days, Carter could have done the same, there was minimal resistance
1. Military spending was part of the recovery.
2. Building a military to fight (and thus deter hot war) the Cold War during the Cold War is building a better military. It is incredible that you managed to Denial this.
3. It was Reagan's air and fast transports that enabled the rapid deployment and build up.
4. It only SEEMED like minimal resistance because Reagan's military and GHWBush's leadership didn't give Hussein the slightest opening.
I saw what happened to Reagan's military build up. A large number of the projects got cancelled under Bush. Cold War ended, mission changed, equipment was obsolete
Reagan escallated a buildup against a threat that turned out to be empty.
The Soviets were not what we were told. They were nowhere close to the military power that we were. Their equipment was poorly designed and poorly maintained. Troops were poorly trained and had low morale. Their Navy could hardly leave port
But fear mongerers convinced us that they were a major threat and we needed a major buildup
2. Building a military to fight (and thus deter hot war) the Cold War during the Cold War is building a better military. It is incredible that you managed to Denial this.
3. It was Reagan's air and fast transports that enabled the rapid deployment and build up.
4. It only SEEMED like minimal resistance because Reagan's military and GHWBush's leadership didn't give Hussein the slightest opening.
5. Cold War projects being cancelled due to victory is not a problem.
6. The "Empty Threat" is the lefty response to the Reagan Victory. Before his victory he was ridiculed for raising tensions and predicting victory. After wards it was imperative that leftists think of ways to explain away this massive accomplishment. Many lies and irrelevancies were put forth and swallowed by the Willful Dupes.
7. Fear was the rational response to thousands of nukes, planes and tanked being aimed at US. Only a madman or a fool was not afraid of that during the Cold War.
OK ...let's go there
Reagan lied like Bush lied
Without the consequences....we just wasted money
Reagan told us the Soviets were a big boogeyman and we needed to build up our military. History has shown they were a paper tiger
Russian military was poorly designed, poorly maintained, poor logistics, horrible morale
Conservatives give him credit for destroying the Soviets....he just exploited it
I have seen many libs argue that the SU was a "paper tiger" after Reagan won the Cold War.
Their arguments are generally the type that only a Willing Dupe would believe.
The Soviet Military was fucking huge.
SIze matters.
Poor logistics can be a problem.
So can being outnumbered 5 to 1.
1. Military spending was part of the recovery.
2. Building a military to fight (and thus deter hot war) the Cold War during the Cold War is building a better military. It is incredible that you managed to Denial this.
3. It was Reagan's air and fast transports that enabled the rapid deployment and build up.
4. It only SEEMED like minimal resistance because Reagan's military and GHWBush's leadership didn't give Hussein the slightest opening.
I saw what happened to Reagan's military build up. A large number of the projects got cancelled under Bush. Cold War ended, mission changed, equipment was obsolete
Reagan escallated a buildup against a threat that turned out to be empty.
The Soviets were not what we were told. They were nowhere close to the military power that we were. Their equipment was poorly designed and poorly maintained. Troops were poorly trained and had low morale. Their Navy could hardly leave port
But fear mongerers convinced us that they were a major threat and we needed a major buildup
2. Building a military to fight (and thus deter hot war) the Cold War during the Cold War is building a better military. It is incredible that you managed to Denial this.
3. It was Reagan's air and fast transports that enabled the rapid deployment and build up.
4. It only SEEMED like minimal resistance because Reagan's military and GHWBush's leadership didn't give Hussein the slightest opening.
5. Cold War projects being cancelled due to victory is not a problem.
6. The "Empty Threat" is the lefty response to the Reagan Victory. Before his victory he was ridiculed for raising tensions and predicting victory. After wards it was imperative that leftists think of ways to explain away this massive accomplishment. Many lies and irrelevancies were put forth and swallowed by the Willful Dupes.
7. Fear was the rational response to thousands of nukes, planes and tanked being aimed at US. Only a madman or a fool was not afraid of that during the Cold War.
OK ...let's go there
Reagan lied like Bush lied
Without the consequences....we just wasted money
Reagan told us the Soviets were a big boogeyman and we needed to build up our military. History has shown they were a paper tiger
Russian military was poorly designed, poorly maintained, poor logistics, horrible morale
Conservatives give him credit for destroying the Soviets....he just exploited it
I have seen many libs argue that the SU was a "paper tiger" after Reagan won the Cold War.
Their arguments are generally the type that only a Willing Dupe would believe.
The Soviet Military was fucking huge.
SIze matters.
Poor logistics can be a problem.
So can being outnumbered 5 to 1.
In modern warfare, size does not matter
The Soviets had large numbers of soldiers, large numbers of tanks, large numbers of planes
They were all crap
Poorly designed, no maintenance, no logistics support. Their troops were poorly trained and had horrible morale
This is not liberal propaganda, it's the post Mortem of the Soviet Union
Reagan lied to convince us that he needed to spend hundreds of billions to fight the Soviets...he didn't
I saw what happened to Reagan's military build up. A large number of the projects got cancelled under Bush. Cold War ended, mission changed, equipment was obsolete
Reagan escallated a buildup against a threat that turned out to be empty.
The Soviets were not what we were told. They were nowhere close to the military power that we were. Their equipment was poorly designed and poorly maintained. Troops were poorly trained and had low morale. Their Navy could hardly leave port
But fear mongerers convinced us that they were a major threat and we needed a major buildup
2. Building a military to fight (and thus deter hot war) the Cold War during the Cold War is building a better military. It is incredible that you managed to Denial this.
3. It was Reagan's air and fast transports that enabled the rapid deployment and build up.
4. It only SEEMED like minimal resistance because Reagan's military and GHWBush's leadership didn't give Hussein the slightest opening.
5. Cold War projects being cancelled due to victory is not a problem.
6. The "Empty Threat" is the lefty response to the Reagan Victory. Before his victory he was ridiculed for raising tensions and predicting victory. After wards it was imperative that leftists think of ways to explain away this massive accomplishment. Many lies and irrelevancies were put forth and swallowed by the Willful Dupes.
7. Fear was the rational response to thousands of nukes, planes and tanked being aimed at US. Only a madman or a fool was not afraid of that during the Cold War.
OK ...let's go there
Reagan lied like Bush lied
Without the consequences....we just wasted money
Reagan told us the Soviets were a big boogeyman and we needed to build up our military. History has shown they were a paper tiger
Russian military was poorly designed, poorly maintained, poor logistics, horrible morale
Conservatives give him credit for destroying the Soviets....he just exploited it
I have seen many libs argue that the SU was a "paper tiger" after Reagan won the Cold War.
Their arguments are generally the type that only a Willing Dupe would believe.
The Soviet Military was fucking huge.
SIze matters.
Poor logistics can be a problem.
So can being outnumbered 5 to 1.
In modern warfare, size does not matter
The Soviets had large numbers of soldiers, large numbers of tanks, large numbers of planes
They were all crap
Poorly designed, no maintenance, no logistics support. Their troops were poorly trained and had horrible morale
This is not liberal propaganda, it's the post Mortem of the Soviet Union
Reagan lied to convince us that he needed to spend hundreds of billions to fight the Soviets...he didn't
What do you base these self serving assumptions on?
2. Building a military to fight (and thus deter hot war) the Cold War during the Cold War is building a better military. It is incredible that you managed to Denial this.
3. It was Reagan's air and fast transports that enabled the rapid deployment and build up.
4. It only SEEMED like minimal resistance because Reagan's military and GHWBush's leadership didn't give Hussein the slightest opening.
5. Cold War projects being cancelled due to victory is not a problem.
6. The "Empty Threat" is the lefty response to the Reagan Victory. Before his victory he was ridiculed for raising tensions and predicting victory. After wards it was imperative that leftists think of ways to explain away this massive accomplishment. Many lies and irrelevancies were put forth and swallowed by the Willful Dupes.
7. Fear was the rational response to thousands of nukes, planes and tanked being aimed at US. Only a madman or a fool was not afraid of that during the Cold War.
OK ...let's go there
Reagan lied like Bush lied
Without the consequences....we just wasted money
Reagan told us the Soviets were a big boogeyman and we needed to build up our military. History has shown they were a paper tiger
Russian military was poorly designed, poorly maintained, poor logistics, horrible morale
Conservatives give him credit for destroying the Soviets....he just exploited it
I have seen many libs argue that the SU was a "paper tiger" after Reagan won the Cold War.
Their arguments are generally the type that only a Willing Dupe would believe.
The Soviet Military was fucking huge.
SIze matters.
Poor logistics can be a problem.
So can being outnumbered 5 to 1.
In modern warfare, size does not matter
The Soviets had large numbers of soldiers, large numbers of tanks, large numbers of planes
They were all crap
Poorly designed, no maintenance, no logistics support. Their troops were poorly trained and had horrible morale
This is not liberal propaganda, it's the post Mortem of the Soviet Union
Reagan lied to convince us that he needed to spend hundreds of billions to fight the Soviets...he didn't
What do you base these self serving assumptions on?
40 years working for the DoD
Google is your friendOK ...let's go there
Reagan lied like Bush lied
Without the consequences....we just wasted money
Reagan told us the Soviets were a big boogeyman and we needed to build up our military. History has shown they were a paper tiger
Russian military was poorly designed, poorly maintained, poor logistics, horrible morale
Conservatives give him credit for destroying the Soviets....he just exploited it
I have seen many libs argue that the SU was a "paper tiger" after Reagan won the Cold War.
Their arguments are generally the type that only a Willing Dupe would believe.
The Soviet Military was fucking huge.
SIze matters.
Poor logistics can be a problem.
So can being outnumbered 5 to 1.
In modern warfare, size does not matter
The Soviets had large numbers of soldiers, large numbers of tanks, large numbers of planes
They were all crap
Poorly designed, no maintenance, no logistics support. Their troops were poorly trained and had horrible morale
This is not liberal propaganda, it's the post Mortem of the Soviet Union
Reagan lied to convince us that he needed to spend hundreds of billions to fight the Soviets...he didn't
What do you base these self serving assumptions on?
40 years working for the DoD
So it should be easy for you to support your non-intuitive claim....
related , here is some good news , Ted Cruz plans to fix our ever weakening military . --- Ted Cruz Reveals Plan to Bolster Military --- and its a good thing , I think that Mr. Trump has similar plans .
Too funny
Speaking in front of a World War II Navy dive bomber inside the U.S.S. Yorktown, Cruz called for increasing the number of active duty troops, airplanes and fighting ships. He also called for expanding the Air Force to include at least 6,000 airplanes, up from 4,000, and to increase the number of battleships from 273 to at least 350.
Don't yell at merelated , here is some good news , Ted Cruz plans to fix our ever weakening military . --- Ted Cruz Reveals Plan to Bolster Military --- and its a good thing , I think that Mr. Trump has similar plans .
Too funny
Speaking in front of a World War II Navy dive bomber inside the U.S.S. Yorktown, Cruz called for increasing the number of active duty troops, airplanes and fighting ships. He also called for expanding the Air Force to include at least 6,000 airplanes, up from 4,000, and to increase the number of battleships from 273 to at least 350.
Battleships? We have no battleships except as museums! That figure refers to ships TOTAL!
gentlemen , yes , USA military is very strong , I just want to see USA military stronger . I don't mind spending the money for more strength . Concerning Obama , hey , mrobama is a wusse and a terrible 'cic' in my opinion and my opinion is shared by millions of Americans that share my politics . .
Stronger than what? Do you know how much firepower is in just ONE carrier battle group? We have 11 carriers currently in service.
List of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Don't yell at merelated , here is some good news , Ted Cruz plans to fix our ever weakening military . --- Ted Cruz Reveals Plan to Bolster Military --- and its a good thing , I think that Mr. Trump has similar plans .
Too funny
Speaking in front of a World War II Navy dive bomber inside the U.S.S. Yorktown, Cruz called for increasing the number of active duty troops, airplanes and fighting ships. He also called for expanding the Air Force to include at least 6,000 airplanes, up from 4,000, and to increase the number of battleships from 273 to at least 350.
Battleships? We have no battleships except as museums! That figure refers to ships TOTAL!
I know that, obviously Cruz doesn't
Like Carter, Obama ran our military into the dirt and spit on them. America will rise again, and there will be debts collected in the future
-Geaux
Carter reduced the military after Vietnam. It is what you are supposed to do
Obama's reductions are the result of pulling troops out of Iraq/Afghanistan and the stupid 10% sequester that Congress forced on him
After Vietnam our military needed rebuilt, not reduced.
Reagan tried to rebuild by throwing money at it. Problem is he spent money to fight the wrong war and bought equipment to fight the wrong mission
Tell it to the Soviets.
Oh, wait, you can't.
Also, Tell it to the Iraqis. Reagans' military is the one we have for the Hundred Hours War.
Reagan built a Cold War military that was obsolete once the Berlin Wall fell
The title speaks for itself. A very, very disturbing data point
-Geaux
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Americans are evenly split when asked if the U.S. is No. 1 in the world militarily, with 49% saying "yes" and 49% saying "no." The current percentage who view the U.S. as No. 1 is, by a small margin, the lowest Gallup has recorded in its 23-year trend. It also marks a significant downturn from last February, when 59% said the U.S. was the world's top military power.
- 49% say U.S. is No. 1 military power in world, down from last year
- Views that U.S. is spending too little on defense are edging up
- Republicans much more likely to say military spending is too little
Americans Less Likely to See U.S. as No. 1 Militarily
Despite the facts to the contrary.
Another pole revealing how stupid and uninformed Americans are.
The next 8 navies could fit inside our Navy.
Carter reduced the military after Vietnam. It is what you are supposed to do
Obama's reductions are the result of pulling troops out of Iraq/Afghanistan and the stupid 10% sequester that Congress forced on him
After Vietnam our military needed rebuilt, not reduced.
Reagan tried to rebuild by throwing money at it. Problem is he spent money to fight the wrong war and bought equipment to fight the wrong mission
Tell it to the Soviets.
Oh, wait, you can't.
Also, Tell it to the Iraqis. Reagans' military is the one we have for the Hundred Hours War.
Reagan built a Cold War military that was obsolete once the Berlin Wall fell
Oh My God.
Well, yes. It succeeded and thus was no longer needed.
One could say the same about the military that FDR built. ONce WWII was over it was obsolete.
I'm not sure what the point of that is.
I made breakfast this morning. Once I was full, what was left was no longer needed.
Once the Soviets were cracked under the pressure. Reagan and then GHWBush started cutting, faster and faster.
The Cold War military did not care about amphibious ships, close combat support aircraft, rapid deployment forcesCarter reduced the military after Vietnam. It is what you are supposed to do
Obama's reductions are the result of pulling troops out of Iraq/Afghanistan and the stupid 10% sequester that Congress forced on him
After Vietnam our military needed rebuilt, not reduced.
Reagan tried to rebuild by throwing money at it. Problem is he spent money to fight the wrong war and bought equipment to fight the wrong mission
Tell it to the Soviets.
Oh, wait, you can't.
Also, Tell it to the Iraqis. Reagans' military is the one we have for the Hundred Hours War.
Reagan built a Cold War military that was obsolete once the Berlin Wall fell
Yeah, it was so obsolete that we decided to gut all of it in the early 90s and did not even have enough amphibious ships to mount an invasion of Haiti and had to do it with Army helicopters with fixed rotors flying from an aircraft carrier! I never knew Rube Goldberg served in the Pentagon before that!
Google is your friendI have seen many libs argue that the SU was a "paper tiger" after Reagan won the Cold War.
Their arguments are generally the type that only a Willing Dupe would believe.
The Soviet Military was fucking huge.
SIze matters.
Poor logistics can be a problem.
So can being outnumbered 5 to 1.
In modern warfare, size does not matter
The Soviets had large numbers of soldiers, large numbers of tanks, large numbers of planes
They were all crap
Poorly designed, no maintenance, no logistics support. Their troops were poorly trained and had horrible morale
This is not liberal propaganda, it's the post Mortem of the Soviet Union
Reagan lied to convince us that he needed to spend hundreds of billions to fight the Soviets...he didn't
What do you base these self serving assumptions on?
40 years working for the DoD
So it should be easy for you to support your non-intuitive claim....
You are welcome to look up the condition of the Soviet military and prove me wrong about how much Reagan overreacted
The Cold War military did not care about amphibious ships, close combat support aircraft, rapid deployment forcesAfter Vietnam our military needed rebuilt, not reduced.
Reagan tried to rebuild by throwing money at it. Problem is he spent money to fight the wrong war and bought equipment to fight the wrong mission
Tell it to the Soviets.
Oh, wait, you can't.
Also, Tell it to the Iraqis. Reagans' military is the one we have for the Hundred Hours War.
Reagan built a Cold War military that was obsolete once the Berlin Wall fell
Yeah, it was so obsolete that we decided to gut all of it in the early 90s and did not even have enough amphibious ships to mount an invasion of Haiti and had to do it with Army helicopters with fixed rotors flying from an aircraft carrier! I never knew Rube Goldberg served in the Pentagon before that!
It was all about massed Divisions, heavy armor and nukes
After Vietnam our military needed rebuilt, not reduced.
Reagan tried to rebuild by throwing money at it. Problem is he spent money to fight the wrong war and bought equipment to fight the wrong mission
Tell it to the Soviets.
Oh, wait, you can't.
Also, Tell it to the Iraqis. Reagans' military is the one we have for the Hundred Hours War.
Reagan built a Cold War military that was obsolete once the Berlin Wall fell
Oh My God.
Well, yes. It succeeded and thus was no longer needed.
One could say the same about the military that FDR built. ONce WWII was over it was obsolete.
I'm not sure what the point of that is.
I made breakfast this morning. Once I was full, what was left was no longer needed.
Once the Soviets were cracked under the pressure. Reagan and then GHWBush started cutting, faster and faster.
The cuts were made when Clinton was elected. Just look at the number of ships the Navy lost in 1993 and 1994.
You can take it in the azz?Mr. Oblama spends a trillion a year on the military, how is that making it weaker?--------------------------------- its my opinion that the USA is getting weaker due to mrobama and his policies Disir . mrobama has lots of influence on his boys and girls in the pentagon and I don't trust them because I don't trust mrobama !! The most important thing for the USA to have is the strongest and best military and weapons in the world and I am very happy to spend money on them Disir !!Did you miss that whole the Pentagon telling Congress to stop buying shit they don't need?
Like tanks?
You do realize where this is coming from, right?
Can we all have some of what you are taking? It must be some good stuff!
A reduction in manpower makes sense when the war is over.
But while the US was mired in Vietnam, the soviets were building tanks and planes and nukes.
Our conventional forces needed upgraded and our military needed to have the damage of Vietnam fixed.
Did you ever see the military build up that Carter Planned for after the Soviets sent him a reality check with their invasion of Afghanistan?
It was GLORIOUS.
Even Carter realize, albeit late, that the military needed more funding, not less.
How did that work out for the Soviets?
Russia is still using that ancient equipment
It was working out fine for them until Reagan came along.
How does that relate to my point about the Carter military reduction in spending?
I worked for the DOD while both Carter and Reagan were President
Under Carter, we were drawing down our forces and regrouping. Carter did fund many modernization efforts and aircraft that we still use today
With Reagan, it was like Christmas. Any military project you proposed got approved. It was the days of Star Wars and Cold War on steroids
I also saw what happened with all the equipment and projects that Reagan green lighted. The Cold War doctrine was obsolete. Our Army was too slow to fight modern engagements. Our Air Force was built around dropping nukes and not tactical missions. Our Navy had the wrong mix of ships
By the 90s, we had to start over
Reagan inherited a military that didn't trust sentries to have bullets in war zones.
8 years later GHWBush inherited a military that won the Hundred Hours War.
Reagan used the military buildup to end his recession. Much of the money he spent did not make for a better military because it was for fighting a Cold War
Bush kicked Saddam out of Kuwait in 100 days, Carter could have done the same, there was minimal resistance
The Cold War military did not care about amphibious ships, close combat support aircraft, rapid deployment forcesAfter Vietnam our military needed rebuilt, not reduced.
Reagan tried to rebuild by throwing money at it. Problem is he spent money to fight the wrong war and bought equipment to fight the wrong mission
Tell it to the Soviets.
Oh, wait, you can't.
Also, Tell it to the Iraqis. Reagans' military is the one we have for the Hundred Hours War.
Reagan built a Cold War military that was obsolete once the Berlin Wall fell
Yeah, it was so obsolete that we decided to gut all of it in the early 90s and did not even have enough amphibious ships to mount an invasion of Haiti and had to do it with Army helicopters with fixed rotors flying from an aircraft carrier! I never knew Rube Goldberg served in the Pentagon before that!
It was all about massed Divisions, heavy armor and nukes
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