The Budgets for the Armed Services Went Down

President Trump's Administration released a Fiscal Year 2021 budget that cut spending for the military, but increased total defense spending beyond the uniformed services.

The uniformed services are having to reassess whether the goals for a larger military armed with weapons and equipment that retains overmatch against China and Russia are both viable. The sense is to cut manpower to buy weapons, but all services right now except the Marine Corps are seen as too small for the kind of major combat operations they face.

2021 Budget Spells The End of US Force Expansion


I'm up in arms, personally. After what President Obama did to the military, it may take a decade or longer of rising budgets to set it fully a right. Remember to write your elected officials, because I plan to do just that, or call them.

 

President Trump has increased readiness and gotten many programs out of the gate. We will need years of steady purchases to replace our old equipment.

About the Navy, they cut a cruiser and a nuclear submarine. Those are incredibly important against Russia or China. We really need a 355 ship Navy. That will take a decade of steady expansion.

Yeah, the Marines can afford cuts.

I worry most about the Army. They can't make trade offs right now. Manpower must go up, equipment must be replaced, and r&d must be invested in to tackle terrorism, rogue states, and China and Russia in a credible way that deters.

 

lol, Bernie will hand President Trump, who I'm not a real fan of, a second term. Millennial Marxism, wow the young are so far gone.

 

If I may, what do you mean?