I disagree. The National Defense Strategy issued last week calls for
renewed efforts to combat competition from powers like Russia and China. It calls for investments in advanced computing and big data and biotechnology and AI and robotics. It calls for increasing our ability to field lethal force, i.e., more soldiers and more weaponry. It calls for investments in nuclear capabilities.
All of these suggest a massive military build-up, not just sustaining operations. Worse, we seem to have just given them an $80B increase with very little debate on the subject. Congress should be pushing back HARD on these assumptions rather than just taking the Pentagon's word for it.
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Posted: 02/09/2018 at 12:08PM