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US Military Strength Is “Marginal to Weak” Says 2016 Report (Video)
To begin this post, all you need to know is that Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said this past week that the Army’s readiness is not at a level that is appropriate for what the American people expect to defend them. Chew on that as we review a few facts… While you’re digesting that piece of news, I challenge anyone to name off ANY foreign policy initiative of Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton’s that has not been a complete, total, abysmal failure. Good Luck. Anyone? One? Didn’t think so. I won’t hold my breath.
In the off chance someone is actually trying to name something that in their warped view they think might have succeeded, let’s go ahead and kill that idea real quick by mentioning that during her time as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton managed to rack up in excess of 1,000 felonies, each of which was directly related to your family’s personal safety, and mine. If you don’t care about your family, or you trust Hillary, that’s your business, so be it. I care about my family. Any questions about Hillary Clinton’s trustworthiness, are summed up in this 20 minute video. I highly doubt whether even her most loyal supporters can stomach the full 20 minutes of the video, because it’s THAT bad. Tell me again you trust your child’s safety to Hillary’s decision making…
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Make no mistake about it here: the question is not whether Hillary did or not commit a felony for each classified email that was on her server that she said had no classified information in the first place, but whether or not the Emperor of Corruption Barack Obama will have her charged for those crimes. The fact that she committed them is not debatable, so don’t bother trying. With that in mind, please take a look at what happens when a President tasked with keeping this country safe Skips 62.5 Percent of His Intelligence Briefings. It’s embarrassing to even watch I know, but listen to Obama’s condescending dumbass:
Obama: When your were asked what’s the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said ‘Russia,’ not Al Qaeda, you said ‘Russia.’ The nineteen eighties are now calling to ask for their foreign-policy back, because the cold war has been over for twenty years.
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Well done sir. Spoken like a true imbecile on national television. So, we have a President right now now that has been wrong on every major foreign policy decision since taking office, and a presumptive President that is a felon (whether a convicted one remains to be seen, but still a felon), who recently said she didn’t lose anyone on her team in Benghazi. I guess the four lives she lost meant that little to her.
Now listen to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley in the interview below from several months ago after assuming his role as Army Chief of Staff. If you don’t want to watch the whole thing, I’ll sum it up. In summary, he says, “Freedom is NOT free.” It’s not free in blood, it’s not free in dollars, and it’s not free in sacrifice. He then goes on to say that for us to maintain our way of life here in the United States, it requires a strong military that protects that way of life.
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That military needs to be able to do a wide range of tasks including but not limited to: Humanitarian Efforts, Disaster Relief, Fighting Terrorism, Fighting Insurgencies and Gorilla Warfare, all while being able to maintain the readiness and capability to defend the American people if there was ever a state on state conflict, and with a state that has advanced past wearing sandals on the battlefield, which is all this country has fought for more than a quarter of a century.
I found Milley’s most profound quote to be, “The only thing more expensive than fighting and winning a war, is fighting and losing a war.” In the interview below from several months ago, at the time General Milley didn’t come right out and say it, but he hinted at the fact that the military was not up to where it should be with readiness. That was several months ago though.
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This week, Stars and Stripes reported:
The Army’s top general says military forces on the ground face a high level of risk if the United States gets into a large-scale conflict against a power such as Russia or China.
Testifying Wednesday on Capitol Hill, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley says years of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, constrained budgets and troop cuts have had a cumulative effect on the service.
Milley says the Army is ready to fight the Islamic State group and other terrorist organizations (AN ENEMY IN SANDALS)
But what Milley describes as a “great power war” against one or two of four countries – China, Russia, Iran and North Korea – would pose greater challenges.
Milley says the Army’s readiness is “not at a level that is appropriate for what the American people expect to defend them.”
For the record, I want you to take note that he didn’t say that Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley did NOT say U.S. forces would face a high level of risk if the U.S. got into a large scale conflict with China AND Russia. He very specifically said China OR Russia, which is hardly the way any attack on the U.S. would be likely to go.
For all the IDIOTS on the left out there, who think gay marriage is the most important issue in the world, or for all the IDIOTS on the right who cannot comprehend a woman’s right to chose, I ask you this: Does either one mean a damn thing to the Russians, or to the People’s Republic of China? NO! As I’ve been saying for years, everything we put in front of our liberty, we will lose it anyway!
The left and the right in this country with their special interests are like a couple fighting over who spilled grape soda on the white carpet of a home that just had its roof ripped off in a category 5 hurricane. The country is in a category 5 hurricane, it’s bankrupt, and now we no longer have the ability to adequately defend ourselves as the video below makes painfully clear:
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All the abuse of power, it HAS to stop, and we HAVE to return to the Constitutional Republic we were founded as. That means sometimes one party will get their way, other times they won’t, but the Constitution got us this far, not Obama’s dumbass.
My fellow Americans: We’re on a sinking ship, and sooner or later it’s time to start bailing water… all of us! If not, when the country falls, and the US Dollar is no longer the World Reserve, and we’re living like a third world nation no longer the masters of our fate, you can explain this to your kid:
The Global Operating Environment
Looking at the world as an environment in which U.S. forces would operate to protect America’s interests, the Index focused on three regions—Europe, the Middle East, and Asia—because of the intersection of our vital interests and actors able to challenge them.
Europe. For the most part, Europe is a stable, mature, and friendly environment, home to America’s oldest and closest allies. The U.S. is tied to it by treaty, robust economic bonds, and deeply rooted cultural linkages. America’s partners in the region are politically stable; possess mature (if debt-laden) economies; and have fairly modern (though shrinking) militaries. America’s longtime presence in the region, Europe’s well-established basing and support infrastructure, and the framework for coordinated action provided by NATO make the region quite favorable for military operations.
The Middle East. In contrast, the Middle East is a deeply troubled area riven with conflict, ruled by authoritarian regimes, and populated by an increasing number of terrorist and other destabilizing entities. Though the United States does enjoy a few strong partnerships in the region, its interests are beset by security and political challenges, surging transnational terrorism, and the potential threat of a nuclear Iran. Offsetting these challenges to some extent are the U.S. military’s experience in the region and the basing infrastructure that it has developed and leveraged for nearly 25 years.
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Asia. Asia’s defining characteristic is its expanse, covering 30 percent of the globe’s land area. Though the region includes long-standing allies of the U.S. that are stable and possess advanced economies, the tyranny of distance makes U.S. military operations in the region difficult in terms of the time and sealift and airlift that are required.
As a whole, the global operating environment currently rates a score of “favorable,” meaning that the United States should be able to project military power anywhere in the world as necessary to defend its interests without substantial opposition or high levels of risk.
Each of the six threat actors assessed in this Index—those possessing both the means to threaten and a pattern of provocative behavior—continued to be particularly aggressive during 2015, with a not altogether surprising correlation of physical capability and state robustness or coherence. Our scoring resulted in the individual marks depicted.
While all six threats have been quite problematic in their behavior and in their impact on their respective regions, Russia and China continue to be most worrisome, both because of the investments they are making in the rapid modernization and expansion of their offensive military capabilities and because of the more enduring effect they are having within their respective regions through such actions as Russia’s active involvement in the conflict in Ukraine and China’s provocative building of islands in highly disputed international waters in the South China Sea.
North Korea warrants sustained attention not because it has any substantial ability to deploy conventional combat power against the United States directly but because it possesses nuclear weapons capable of reaching U.S. facilities and America’s critical security and economic partners in the region. Furthermore, a conventional war between North Korea and South Korea would have profound consequences for the global economy.
Similarly, Afghanistan/Pakistan-based terrorism holds strong potential to spark a large-scale conflict between Pakistan and India (two nuclear powers) or even to pose a nuclear threat to others should radicalized Islamists gain control of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal or destabilize Pakistan’s government, resulting in the loss of positive control of Pakistan’s inventory of nuclear weapons.
Finally, Iran and the various terrorist groups operating in the Middle East would be a greater threat to U.S. security interests than they currently are if they possessed a greater physical ability to project military power outside of their immediate areas. Such a concern is at the heart of the debate over an international agreement pertaining to Iran’s nuclear aspirations.
Taken together, the globalized threat to U.S. vital national interests as a whole during 2015 is assessed as “elevated.”
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The Status of U.S. Military Power
Finally, we assessed the military power of the United States in three areas: capability, capacity, and readiness. These three areas of assessment are central to the overarching questions of whether the U.S. has a sufficient quantity of appropriately modern military power and whether military units are able to conduct military operations on demand and effectively.
The common theme across the services and the United States’ nuclear enterprise is one of force degradation resulting from many years of underinvestment, poor execution of modernization programs, and the negative effects of budget sequestration (cuts in funding) on readiness and capacity. While the military has been heavily engaged in operations, primarily in the Middle East but elsewhere as well, since September 11, 2001, experience is both ephemeral and context-sensitive. Valuable combat experience is lost over time as the servicemembers who individually gained experience leave the force, and it maintains direct relevance only for future operations of a similar type. Thus, though the current Joint Force is experienced in some types of operations, it is still aged and shrinking in its capacity for operations.
The characterizations shown are not a reflection of the competence of individual service members or the professionalism of the services or Joint Force as a whole; nor do they speak to the U.S. military’s strength relative to other militaries around the world. Rather, they are assessments of the institutional, programmatic, and matériel health or viability of America’s hard military power.
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Our analysis concluded with these assessments:
Army as “Weak.” The Army’s score dropped from “marginal” last year to “weak” this year, a development that can be attributed primarily to a drop in capacity, as the Army has fewer BCTs ready for deployment abroad. The Army’s capability and readiness scores remained static over the past year as the service continued to struggle with recouping readiness levels after years of budget cuts.
Navy as “Marginal.” The Navy again scored strong in readiness, but at a cost to future capability. Deferred maintenance has kept ships at sea, but this is beginning to affect the Navy’s ability to deploy. With scores of “weak” in capability (due largely to old platforms and troubled modernization programs) and “marginal” in capacity, the Navy is currently just able to meet operational requirements. Moving forward, the fleet will be further strained to meet operational demands, especially as Reagan-era platforms increasingly near the end of their service lives.
Air Force as “Marginal.” In 2015, the Air Force flew sorties in support of many named operations, resulting in a higher than anticipated operational tempo. The USAF scored “very strong” in capacity. Capability scored as “marginal,” remaining static since last year’s assessment, while “readiness” dropped from “strong” to “marginal.” Although difficult to categorize, the readiness decline is best attributed to reports that under half of the service’s combat air forces meet full-spectrum readiness requirements. The aggregate score of “marginal” is a decline from the 2015 Index score of “strong”, driven primarily by degradation in capability and readiness.
Marine Corps as “Marginal.” As with last year, the Corps’ strongest suit was in readiness, but even here there are problems as stated by the Corps itself. While the fighting competence of the service is superb, it is hampered by aging equipment; troubled replacement programs for its key ground vehicles (particularly its amphibious personnel carriers); and a shrinking force. The progress the Corps has made in replacing its rotary-wing aircraft has been a notable bright spot in its otherwise uninspiring modernization portfolio.
Nuclear Capabilities as “Marginal.” Modernization, testing, and investment in the intellectual/talent underpinnings of this sector are the chief problems facing America’s nuclear enterprise. Delivery platforms are good, but the force depends on a very limited set of weapons (in number of designs) and models that are quite old, in stark contrast to the aggressive programs of competitor states. Following developments abroad in regions of national interest and increased uncertainty globally, there is now a greater need to modernize U.S. nuclear capabilities, particularly with regard to aging delivery systems. Continued reliance on legacy systems such as the B-52 will eventually diminish the effectiveness of the nuclear triad and lead to the degradation of our nation’s strategic deterrence.
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In aggregate, the United States’ military posture is rated as “marginal” and is trending toward “weak.”
Overall, the Index concludes that the current U.S. military force is capable of meeting the demands of a single major regional conflict while also attending to various presence and engagement activities but that it would be very hard-pressed to do more and certainly would be ill-equipped to handle two nearly simultaneous major regional contingencies.
The consistent decline in funding and the consequent shrinking of the force have placed it under significant pressure. Essential maintenance continues to be deferred; fewer units (mostly the Navy’s platforms and the Special Operations Forces community) are being cycled through operational deployments more often and for longer periods; and old equipment is being extended while programmed replacements are problematic.
The shift (since last year’s Index) in two services—the Army and Air Force—to a lower category in the course of a single year is surprising and should be seen as evidence of the rapidly accumulating effects of inadequate funding during a time of higher operational demand and policies that have traded long-term health for near-term readiness.
The cumulative effect of these factors has resulted in a U.S. military that is marginally able to meet the demands of defending America’s vital national interests.
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