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From the Institute of Peace.
National Defense Panel Releases Assessment of 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review
Report Addresses U.S. National Security, Sequestration, Force Structure
The consensus conclusion of the report is that there is a growing gap between the strategic objectives the U.S. military is expected to achieve and the resources required to do so. In their cover letter to Congress, NDP co-chairs Dr. William Perry and General John P. Abizaid wrote, “We must act now to address our challenges if the nation is to continue benefiting from its national security posture.” .....snip~
National Defense Panel Releases Assessment of 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review | United States Institute of Peace
Exactly!
To achieve all we want today will require a level of spending even more unreasonable than what we currently do. My point is changing those "strategic objectives" after really discussing our present military needs, and that means looking at our foreign policy for all it has not handled well.
If we objectively review what we have not accomplished over the past decade or so around the globe we might learn a little more about the importance of a strong national defense in place of modern day imperialism that in truth overextends our military capability at a huge expense.
We could have all the latest toys, we could have all the best equipment, we could still have the best trained military force on the planet and it cost far less than it presently does if we were not committed to running around the globe being involved in, and in some cases directly causing, fiasco after fiasco.
Russia knows this, and is doing to us what we did to the USSR at the height of the Cold War at the time.