U.S. military dominance ‘no longer assured,’ says House committee

[NYcarbineer]

A Republican committee, in the pocket of the defense lobby, doesn't think we're spending enough on defense.

lol, this is my shocked face:

 

[Where_r_my_Keys]

A Republican committee, in the pocket of the defense lobby, doesn't think we're spending enough on defense.

lol, this is my shocked face:

Your concession is duly noted and summarily accepted Gilligan.

 

[bodecea]

Holy crap! How many more times what the rest of the world spends in defense must we spend????

 

[rightwinger]

The US spends 47 cents of every defense dollar on earth

I guess that is not enough

 

[NYcarbineer]

A Republican committee, in the pocket of the defense lobby, doesn't think we're spending enough on defense.

lol, this is my shocked face:

Your concession is duly noted and summarily accepted Gilligan.

Excuse me, Jews-killed-Jesus guy,

which countries can we not defend ourselves against?

Be specific, for once, as opposed to repeating the same sentences like a mental patient.

 

[NYcarbineer]

The US spends 47 cents of every defense dollar on earth

I guess that is not enough

The warmonger right believes that by trying to bankrupt us with military spending, they can along the way destroy the liberal agenda to take care of Americans here at home.

 

[Kosh]

The US spends 47 cents of every defense dollar on earth

I guess that is not enough

The warmonger right believes that by trying to bankrupt us with military spending, they can along the way destroy the liberal agenda to take care of Americans here at home.

Says the far left drone that supports Obama illegal wars..

 

[Kosh]

The US spends 47 cents of every defense dollar on earth

I guess that is not enough

Says the far left drone that supports Obama's illegal wars..

 

[NYcarbineer]

The US spends 47 cents of every defense dollar on earth

I guess that is not enough

The warmonger right believes that by trying to bankrupt us with military spending, they can along the way destroy the liberal agenda to take care of Americans here at home.

Says the far left drone that supports Obama illegal wars..

I told you. I already have a girlfriend. Stop stalking me.

 

[rightwinger]

The US spends 47 cents of every defense dollar on earth

I guess that is not enough

Says the far left drone that supports Obama's illegal wars..

Please go away and let the adults talk

 

[Kosh]

The US spends 47 cents of every defense dollar on earth

I guess that is not enough

The warmonger right believes that by trying to bankrupt us with military spending, they can along the way destroy the liberal agenda to take care of Americans here at home.

Says the far left drone that supports Obama illegal wars..

I told you. I already have a girlfriend. Stop stalking me.

See when you get the far left to face reality they will deny it..

 

[Kosh]

The US spends 47 cents of every defense dollar on earth

I guess that is not enough

Says the far left drone that supports Obama's illegal wars..

Please go away and let the adults talk

Oh the irony of those comments from the far left drones.

See how these far left drones will deny reality?

 

[rightwinger]

I can see why we need to be afraid

 

[Kosh]

I can see why we need to be afraid

Yes as the far left supports Obama's illegal wars, without question or hesitation..

 

[Hutch Starskey]

As is always the case toward the end of Leftist government, the US means to defend itself is once again in jeopardy... .

Such is, of course, the nature of those who advocate for Foreign Ideas Hostile to American Principle... and never less so, than where such subversives are elected to the office of the President of the United States.

From the Article:

"The House Armed Services Committee is warning that it should no longer be assumed that the U.S. military is either the most technologically superior or the most dominant fighting force, an assessment that comes just as the rise of the Islamic State and Russia is posing a real challenge to the United States.

“[W]ith the continued diffusion of advanced technology, U.S. military technological superiority is no longer assumed and the dominance U.S. forces have long enjoyed in the air, sea, space, and cyberspace domains is no longer assured,” the committee wrote in a report detailing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2016. “Such a security environment demands that the nation’s armed forces are agile, efficient, ready, and lethal.”

The committee said that trend is especially worrying in light of the various national security challenges that have come up in the last year. Those include “the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, growing instability across the Middle East and Africa, and a revanchist Russian Federation.”

The committee said those threats “are a reminder of the continuing need for U.S. military engagement, presence, commitment, and strength to defend U.S. interests, deter would-be aggressors, and reassure allies and partners.”

The NDAA doesn’t fund the military, but it does set policy direction for the military, and authorizes specific spending levels within the Department of Defense. The 2016 NDAA authorizes $515 billion in discretionary spending, and $89.2 billion for “overseas contingency operations.”

The overseas operations account is generally used to fund war operations, but this year, it has become controversial because Republicans are using that account to boost Defense Department funding above the cap on spending that was agreed in 2011.

The Obama administration requested a total of almost $612 billion in total Defense Department funding, and the House NDAA matches that once mandatory spending items are added.

One frustration in Congress has been the Obama administration’s reluctance to send military aid to Ukraine to help that country stave off pro-Russia insurgents, who are still receiving support from Russian forces. The NDAA, however, would call on the U.S. to send this lethal aid to Ukraine. ... .

Smells like the usual run-up to election fear mongering.
Watch the flock reflexively turn and carry the torch.

 

[Kondor3]

That's funny.

I was just thinking: "Anyone who thinks that the emergence of a resurrected Caliphate is not an existential threat to Western Society is truly delusional."

Isn't it great, how you get exposed to different opinions on the Net?

The Caliphate you think that they are regenerating is nothing compared to the caliphate that had all Muslim nations under their control, then came the Shia's, that fucked up the whole caliphate until the Mongols destroyed it in 1252...

True.

Only trouble is, a new polity encompassing both present-day Iraq and Syria, as well as other pieces of real-estate, makes for a grand down-payment and start on continuing that resurrection, eh?

And, of course, such are exactly the sugar-plum visions running through their tiny little brains, yes?

Best way to avoid that? Don't let The Beast materialize in the first place, even on a more modest scale. Else run the risk of not being able to control it or kill it later.

No, because the Muslims and Arabs/Persians are not unified, they are fighting each other over a doctrine of the clergy running a Muslim nation, or a man in the lineage of Muhammad...ISIS is Sunni, they kill Shia, get the picture?

Of course I get the picture.

Whatever-in-the-world makes you believe that two mega-centers of power (Sunni, Shia) are not as dangerous - or close to it - as a single unified polity?

There are no mega powers for Muslims..SA might be close, but they are not self sufficient in being able to provide their own military needs..That would put them on the level of Russia, which still lags behind the USA .

Of course there are no such at present.

I'm talking about the prospect of such, in the foreseeable future, if ISIS et al are left un-checked.

 

[Kondor3]

...Anyone who thinks ISIS is a threat to the US is truly delusional...

That's funny.

I was just thinking: "Anyone who thinks that the emergence of a resurrected Caliphate is not an existential threat to Western Society is truly delusional."

Isn't it great, how you get exposed to different opinions on the Net?

There's a resurrected Caliphate?

Not yet.

 

[NYcarbineer]

The US spends 47 cents of every defense dollar on earth

I guess that is not enough

The warmonger right believes that by trying to bankrupt us with military spending, they can along the way destroy the liberal agenda to take care of Americans here at home.

Says the far left drone that supports Obama illegal wars..

I told you. I already have a girlfriend. Stop stalking me.

See when you get the far left to face reality they will deny it..

Since I asked you a dozen times to prove that Obama has started any illegal wars, and all the response I got was more of you drooling all over yourself,

I think the case is closed.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Never seen that story before....LOL
Like every year for the last 60 years

No, there is no other nation even close to us militarily

Yepp.

Gesendet von meinem GT-I9515 mit Tapatalk

 

[rightwinger]

As is always the case toward the end of Leftist government, the US means to defend itself is once again in jeopardy... .

Such is, of course, the nature of those who advocate for Foreign Ideas Hostile to American Principle... and never less so, than where such subversives are elected to the office of the President of the United States.

From the Article:

"The House Armed Services Committee is warning that it should no longer be assumed that the U.S. military is either the most technologically superior or the most dominant fighting force, an assessment that comes just as the rise of the Islamic State and Russia is posing a real challenge to the United States.

“[W]ith the continued diffusion of advanced technology, U.S. military technological superiority is no longer assumed and the dominance U.S. forces have long enjoyed in the air, sea, space, and cyberspace domains is no longer assured,” the committee wrote in a report detailing the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2016. “Such a security environment demands that the nation’s armed forces are agile, efficient, ready, and lethal.”

The committee said that trend is especially worrying in light of the various national security challenges that have come up in the last year. Those include “the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, growing instability across the Middle East and Africa, and a revanchist Russian Federation.”

The committee said those threats “are a reminder of the continuing need for U.S. military engagement, presence, commitment, and strength to defend U.S. interests, deter would-be aggressors, and reassure allies and partners.”

The NDAA doesn’t fund the military, but it does set policy direction for the military, and authorizes specific spending levels within the Department of Defense. The 2016 NDAA authorizes $515 billion in discretionary spending, and $89.2 billion for “overseas contingency operations.”

The overseas operations account is generally used to fund war operations, but this year, it has become controversial because Republicans are using that account to boost Defense Department funding above the cap on spending that was agreed in 2011.

The Obama administration requested a total of almost $612 billion in total Defense Department funding, and the House NDAA matches that once mandatory spending items are added.

One frustration in Congress has been the Obama administration’s reluctance to send military aid to Ukraine to help that country stave off pro-Russia insurgents, who are still receiving support from Russian forces. The NDAA, however, would call on the U.S. to send this lethal aid to Ukraine. ... .

Smells like the usual run-up to election fear mongering.
Watch the flock reflexively turn and carry the torch.

Republicans just passed a new budget that increases military spending and slashes social programs

Looks like time for some fear Mongering about Russians, Chinese and ISIS