DoD Shitting Bricks About The Next Military Budget

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (DoD? Gannett?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
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Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: I for one, will be happy if we can ever reduce military spending. Be sure to read the discussion thread at the end of the original article.

In case you forgot, we are spending a trillion dollars a year on military 'things'.




DoD Buzz: DoD Budget Strategy Shredded
By Colin Clark Friday, December 3rd, 2010 10:46 am
Posted in Air, International, Land, Naval, Policy, Space

They are all members of the Sustainable Defense Task Force, affiliated with Rep. Barney Frank. The panel published a report recommending almost $1 trillion in defense cuts. Adams was head of the defense section at the Office of Management and Budget under the Clinton administration and has actually done this before.

[maryf]

1. Let them eat bricks...

thanks, and K&R for your hutspa in posted these,

[WhiteTara]

2. thanks for the post

I love hearing that the military might not be so well financed. Of course, they'll take it out on the service members, cut pay, benefits and whatever else they can. The nasty machines will get all the money they need.

[Recursion]

3. Actually Gates's plan is to cut 500 billion from contractors

Though even that is people's jobs.

[WhiteTara]

4. well that will be helpful

even it is people's job. We need those jobs back under our control.

[social_critic]

5. Unfortunately it's people's jobs making gadgets to destroy what others make

I just want to point out, individuals working in the "defense" industry - which I see as more of an "empire support" industry, build gadgets our military uses to go blow up things and kill people elsewhere. It's hard to say anything our military has done since 1990 has really been done to defend the USA - it has been done to defend commercial interests I don't think were worth defending, to defend Israel, to defend the military industrial complex, or (if you want to be naive), to defend Afghan women's right to vote.

The US economy and job market would do much better if the money were re-directed towards a clean energy industry, better mass transport, and infrastructure development (for example a smart electric grid). But this of course doesn't fit the ticket, the people who control our lives happen to like the way we go out and blow up things.

[spanone]

6. they have nothing to fear....they will get all they want, i'm sure

[Recursion]

7. Why are you sure of that?

The Secretary of Defense has already outlined a bunch of cuts.