If you cut the wrong stuff, oh like all 11 Carriers, or all tank Bn's, then when you really need them you will not have them. Very short sighted thinking.

You do not keep America strong by making America weak. This should be obvious, but on July 21, 2011 NBC News told us about two stories which shows the lack of common sense operating in Washington: Fiat now owns 53% of Chrysler, at a loss to the American taxpayer of $1.3 billion dollars (nice move Washington); and, America has to get rides to space from Russia (yeh, that is strategic thinking!)

The military might of the United States keeps enemies and potential enemies in line while enabling us to fight two wars. We are already understaffed here and underfunded, but Washington is talking of cutting defense further. Like so many other things coming out of Washington, it does not make sense. It is not strategic.

During WWII, and for a time after, the United States had strategic vision. We seemed to have lost this. We must get it back. We gamble with our future otherwise.

In her remarkable book, "The March of Folly," Barbara Tuchman shows many examples of leaders who have done that which was directly opposite to the best interests of their constituents. America must not join that march.

People who say our relative strength allows us to cut American defense are not thinking ahead. Thinking ahead is what strategic thinking is all about.

....note the quality of cars...Lexus, BMW, Jaguar, Mercedes, Volvo. Then drive thru the towns and country side that are not part of these professional civil and contractor neighborhood and survey the cars in the driveway or parked on the street. Look at these citizens infrastructure, their homes, their clothing.

It doesn't take too long for an ethical or even a practical person to realise that Maddof was not the only huckster in the pig pen.

There is no security in the amount we squander and no loss to cut it by half.

I hope the level of discourse during the debate about how much, not whether, to cut defense spending is better than this blog. The Aircraft Carrier group is one of the more effective tools for a variety of missions that may permit cuts in other areas. Many recognize it as a very effective antiterrorist platform because of force projection capabilities.

My hope is that huge weapons development programs rather than maintaining and supplying the military services are the choice of budget cutters. I served in the Coast Guard which kept taking on missions and making do with little. The ethic could serve the military well as we navigate these tough budgetary times.

How trustworthy is the military when it comes to deciding what gets cut? A general who retires into the arms industry isn't exactly the most unbiased. If this were the 1990s would we be seeing all of the U.S military's drones get cut?

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One of the consequences of this policy was that these men developed a dislike for each other. Roehm was particularly hated because as leader of the Sturm Abteilung (SA) he had tremendous power and had the potential to remove any one of his competitors. Goering and Himmler asked Reinhard Heydrich to assemble a dossier on Roehm. Heydrich, who also feared him, manufactured evidence that suggested that Roehm had been paid 12 million marks by the French to overthrow Hitler.Hitler liked Ernst Roehm and initially refused to believe the dossier provided by Heydrich. Roehm had been one of his first supporters and, without his ability to obtain army funds in the early days of the movement, it is unlikely that the Nazis would have ever become established. The SA under Roehm's leadership had also played a vital role in destroying the opposition during the elections of 1932 and 1933.However, Adolf Hitler had his own reasons for wanting Roehm removed. Powerful supporters of Hitler had been complaining about Roehm for some time. Generals were afraid that the Sturm Abteilung (SA), a force of over 3 million men, would absorb the much smaller German Army into its ranks and Roehm would become its overall leader.Industrialists such as Albert Voegler, Gustav Krupp, Alfried Krupp, Fritz Thyssen and Emile Kirdorf, who had provided the funds for the Nazi victory, were unhappy with Roehm's socialistic views on the economy and his claims that the real revolution had still to take place. Many people in the party also disapproved of the fact that Roehm and many other leaders of the SA were homosexuals.

I need to add this; the Marines are not alone in the Helmand.  They have plenty of American Army, Air Force, Navy, Brits, Canadians, and a French infantry officer who snuck over with the 2nd Marines (he is apparently an exceptional talent and the de facto S3 alpha for RCT 2) working with them. Col Kennedy told me he has a couple of Army SF A teams in his AO and both of them are absolutely first rate, constantly outside the wire, constantly working with the locals, and frequently involved in big fights where they are always outnumbered and out-gunned yet they never lose.  He loves his SF teams and, therefore, I love them too.  I am sorry Lara Logan did not spend 3 months with them, because her story on 60 minutes would not have been so damn embarrassing for the SF community, and I would not have gotten so much hate mail for blogging it.The Marines are in the abella anderson because that is where the Army leadership who runs the war sent them.  The Marines are sitting in Marjah because that is the key terrain for the drug trade, which fuels a good portion of the conflict.  They are sitting on the goose which lays the golden poppy eggs and “anonymous sources” now want them to move into the Kandahar area because the 20,000 troops they have there cannot manage to get off their asses and outside the wire?  Nothing brings out the long knives like success… here is another example.

Tell North Korea that we have flawless information that all the muslim countries are about to make a move on North Korea. RIO And that the only way to stop them is to TAKE THEM OUT NOW!!! Libya, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, etc..

Hitler named Victor Lutze to replace Röhm as head of the SA. Hitler ordered him, as one prominent historian described it, to put an end to "homosexuality, debauchery, drunkenness, and high living" in the SA Hitler expressly told him to stop SA funds from being spent on limousines and banquets, which he considered evidence of SA extravagance. A weak man, jesse jane did little to assert the SA's independence in the coming years, and the SA gradually lost its power in Hitler's Germany. The regime had all of the decorative SA daggers ground to remove the name of Röhm from the blade, which was replaced with the words "Alles für Deutschland" (Everything for Germany). Membership in the organisation plummeted from 2.9 million in August 1934 to 1.2 million in April 1938. The Night of the Long Knives represented a triumph for Hitler, and a turning point for the German government. It established Hitler as "the supreme judge of the German people", as he put it in his July 13 speech to the Reichstag. Later, in April 1942, Hitler would formally adopt this title, thus placing himself de jure as well as de facto above the reach of the law. Centuries of jurisprudence proscribing extra-judicial killings were swept aside. Despite some initial efforts by local prosecutors to take legal action against those who carried out the murders, which the regime rapidly quashed, it appeared that no law would constrain Hitler in his use of powerThe Night of the Long Knives also sent a clear message to the public that even the most prominent Germans were not immune to arrest or even summary execution should the Nazi regime perceive them as a threat. In this manner, the purge established a pattern of violence that would characterise the Nazi regime: the use of force to establish an empire.