renesauz
IBL Representative
With all of the hand wringing and arguing over social policies, whether or not we should be moving towards single-payer health care, etc., I find it disturbing that we rarely talk in any meaningful way about the biggest item in the National budget: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-long-would-the-us-military-last-in-a-war-against-the-rest-of-the-world-2016-3
Basically, this article points out the fact that our Navy and Air power aren't just the biggest and baddest in the world, but are so even if compared to the next 7 or 8 countries COMBINED. That even if not the largest, the technological investments and advantages of our army, particularly if it were fighting to defend our own borders, is so large that with the air power superiority already noted, it could easily defend us.
Our military budget is obscene. Yet...I'd be willing to bet that even suggesting that it's obscene (and I'm doing more than suggest here) will bring attacks of being weak or un-American. Is this a discussion we can even have here?
Basically, this article points out the fact that our Navy and Air power aren't just the biggest and baddest in the world, but are so even if compared to the next 7 or 8 countries COMBINED. That even if not the largest, the technological investments and advantages of our army, particularly if it were fighting to defend our own borders, is so large that with the air power superiority already noted, it could easily defend us.
Our military budget is obscene. Yet...I'd be willing to bet that even suggesting that it's obscene (and I'm doing more than suggest here) will bring attacks of being weak or un-American. Is this a discussion we can even have here?