Some squeals from the right: Don’t cut defense
Some squeals from the right: Don’t cut defense.
As much as I think it necessary to aggressively fight the wars we are in, I have no doubt that the budget of the Defense Department could be trimmed by significant amounts, without harming our capabilities in the slightest.
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Some squeals from the right: Don’t cut defense.
As much as I think it necessary to aggressively fight the wars we are in, I have no doubt that the budget of the Defense Department could be trimmed by significant amounts, without harming our capabilities in the slightest.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Have to disagree with you here Bob. I think Defense (though done wastefully in many ways like acquisitions) is one place we’ve really been underfunding. Hence, to few solders deployed for to long, obsolete and deteriorating aircraft, ships, ground craft – etc.
We could argue about not wasting so much on gov pork and such — but unless your going to completely redo how congress and the US contracts for things (politically – good luck with that) cuts will likely do real harm, and increase the confidence and agressivnes of everyone from Islamofacists – to China.
To get a fix on the magnitude of the task facing reforming Defense acquisitions, understand this. The process is governed by thousands upon thousands of pages of laws, each yielding reams upon reams of administrative regulation. In addition, you’ve on the order of a hundred thousand judicially enforceable contracts. Every step of the acquisition exposes itself to litigation.
We simply don’t know what happens when you start taking a hatchet to this overgrown thicket, and unlike NASA the Department of Defense performs a vital, constitutionally mandated function of government.
Just a nit – but we do know what it was like without all these regulations — since we purchased things BEFoRE we wrote them.