The Navy will have to mothball more than 60 ships including two carrier battle groups, while the Air Force will have to substantially reduce the procurement of the F-35 which is supposed to be our bread-and-butter fighter for decades to come; the F-35 variants intended for use on amphibious assault ships and aircraft carriers will most likely be cancelled altogether. Cutting all these programs will result in even more job losses—the report projects at least 25 percent of the civilian defense workforce will have to be furloughed, resulting in the elimination of 200,000 jobs.
With our limited money situation, why should we fund things like the faulty F-35 that take money away from real dominating platforms?
The strategic stupidity is amazing.
But yeah, close down the F-22 line. The kind of stupidity displayed is destroying our defense posture.
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Pretty much sums up the 'reality check' on a more serious note, now being faced by the services and having to be handled by the bureaucrats.
The difference however, is that going forward there is unfortunately no more room for tricky balancing acts and maneuvering or more kicking the can down the road policy making.
One will have to actually (or unfortunately, depending which side your on) be held accountable for paying bills now and have to buy something of worth and value, given the reality of depreciating budgets.
God speed-
I guess the article if quite realistic, if anything than probably optimistic.
I think the armed forces (incl or especially all these civil contractors) and intelligence complex has to be reduced to around 1.2/1.3 million heads. Part of that could come from de-federalizing the Guards.
What I think is plainly wrong in the article is to retain the Army - Navy - Air Force structure and the roughly equal budget shares. Won't do I say. Only with a unified force the force reductions and cost reductions are possible without really loosing too much warfighting power. This "everybody will loose 25%" approach just won't do. The U.S. needs to prioritize.
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