Obama Cuts Could Make Air Force Smallest Ever And Make Navy Smallest Since 1915

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If the proposed cuts in defense are made, how long will it be before another 9/11 happens only this time they may take out a whole city like L.A. or New York. I saw the world on the brink in the Cuban Missile Crisis and don't ever want to be that close to total destruction again, so unless you've been there, don't comment on something you've never experienced.

Isn't it odd, that even with a very large military budget, 9/11 DID happen?

I guess the gutting of the nation's human intelligence capabilities and to some extent electronic intell by Bill Clinton had nothing to do with 9-11?

Clinton didn't gut intelligence..quite the opposite. However, the CIA didn't back Clinton's assertions that Bin Laden was behind the Khobar Bombings or the Cole. And Republicans wouldn't back Clinton's requests for Special Ops teams to take out Bin Laden. Be that as it may, he tried to liquidate Bin Laden (Which was scoffed at by Republicans as Wagging the Dog) and left Bush with a pretty detailed warning about what Bin Laden planned to do. It was ignored in favor of re-igniting the cold war and spending vast sums of money on missile defense.

 

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If Obama were to do this, our country would be in great peril for our national security would be at dire risks. Right now, Russia and China are having massive buildups to their military hardware. They are developing at a rapid pace new weapons platforms that would pose a threat to our vital interests around the globe. I am not for reducing our Air Force down to the smallest level ever as well as lower the number of Naval vessels to WW1 levels in 1915 of 147 ships when we now have 436 ships. I believe by doing this, Obama would send a signal to our adversaries that our nation is weak and they would probably perceive it that way. In reality, we would definitely be weaker. This is a foolish move if it happens. These cuts was determined when the Super Committee was giving the task of coming up with a solution to reduce our spending and our deficit. Democrats walked out the other day rejecting the Republicans fair proposal putting our national security at serious risk. In a statement, John McCain said the automatic cuts "would set off a swift decline of the United States as the world's leading military power. ... This is not an outcome that we can live with, and it is certainly not one that we should impose on ourselves. The sequester is a threat to the national security interests of the United States, and it should not be allowed to occur." I agree. We should never put our status as the worlds superpower in jeopardy and should instead be on a constant buildup of technological advance weapons systems that no country can rival.

Panetta Warns Of Smallest Air Force Ever If Deep Defense Cuts Made | Fox News

The number of U.S. ground forces would drop to levels not seen since 1940, the Navy would drop to the smallest number of ships since 1915 and the Air Force would be the smallest ever, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in warning Congress of the dire implications of deeper defense cuts.

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Yawn. Are you sure you really are former military? Because you sound like an ignorant fuck babbling on about this. The talk of downsizing these branches has been going on for years and is nothing new. The Air Force and Navy are both understood to be over sized for modern day purposes and needs. The Air Force is, in general, becoming increasingly obsolete and more of an Intelligence Force. The Navy has such over bearing world wide dominance that it would take forever for anyone to catch up to the point where they could even last a month in a naval war against us.

Size of the military is NOT equal to continued development of the military. I support reducing the overall size of the Navy and Air Force, and of the Army as well after we get things wrapped up in Iraq and Afghanistan. Defense spending is an incredibly huge chunk of government spending and with intelligent down sizing we can save a great deal of money that will help us to balance the budget and start paying off the national debt.