The lady gets it. Good. The problem is that the Senate and the White House are controlled (for now) by a party which will choose to devote available funds to welfare, not defense. As our host said a few days back--if we don't change who is in charge nothing will change--except for the worse.
Realistically, probably cut back on operations. Sorry, but we need to catch up on maintenance and training.
Repeal Goldwater-Nichols, and we might be able to convert a decent hunk of Active Army to Guard/Reserve for a small reduction in personnel costs, but that's a long shot.
Here's the other danger: the lag time between the replenishment orders being placed and actual delivery. Last summer, as we shipped more munitions to Ukraine (and our own inventories began to drop), DoD placed an order to replace Stingers, Javelins and other weapons shipped to the Ukrainians. Projected deliveries to backfill our depleted stocks will occur in about 30 months. You read that correctly.
I would like to support the first proposition (that any increase less than inflation is a de facto cut) with data. One of USAF's Mitchell Institute Aerospace Advantage podcasts this spring, reports that the cost of spares is inflating at rate of 10% across the board. Also that this number has been stable for several years.
Got to love the double speak and half truths. Also I work in factory field service on specialty machinery I'm seeing inflation about 15 to 20 % in the industrial space. My friends that do cnc machine repair and like trades are seeing see the same for inflation if not more. That also doesn't couldn't lead time for some machines that can be 6 to 18 months out these are for the machines that you need to make the parts to parts anything. We have got serval jobs not for being cheaper but the other guy was two years out on a new machine and we were only a year
It's a joke. A bottomless pit in which we throw treasure and get back empty promises of transformational wunderwaffen that fail to deliver. Can't even get an audit of the budget.
We squandered our opportunities to fix this problem 15-20 years ago and exacerbated it with legislative and acquisition systems that reward bad behavior led by a political party that is destroying the educational base of the country.
This argument will have to be repeated many times during the battle that is about to be waged over the FY24 budget. Increasing defense spending to keep pace with inflation in a shrinking budgetary environment will be hard for a party which instinctively wants to cut defense spending. This may explain why the Biden Administration is tripping over itself to try and get the PRC to the negotiating table now. If they can craft some paper-thin deal, they can declare the crisis over and pass through real dollar defense cuts.
People said similar things about, steam power, aviation etc. when all that was introduced. Thing is to, is to make sure they work are affordable before deciding to build a fleet around them. Unlike what they did with the LCS, EMALS, AWE and the advanced Gun System,
The Army. Sorry guys, after twenty-years of a conveyor belt of funding, you're gonna have to take a haircut. Half your GO's had no idea about COIN resulting in zero progress in the AO's. Bigger fight is on the horizon and invading a country isn't one of the aspects we're looking to do.
My life today is vastly superior to thirty years ago. I live in a quiet, safe community. I swim in a sea of instantaneous media content. We American have it great, no civilization has had so many folks live so well.
As a kid, my football coach was mailed cassette tapes of English TV where we could see clips of the team we were following, The Arsenal. A big tube tv on a stand playing streaky, blurred, images. Now, I have a TV the size of a high school blackboard, with The Arsenal in glorious high definition. Live. From London.
The lady gets it. Good. The problem is that the Senate and the White House are controlled (for now) by a party which will choose to devote available funds to welfare, not defense. As our host said a few days back--if we don't change who is in charge nothing will change--except for the worse.
Realistically, probably cut back on operations. Sorry, but we need to catch up on maintenance and training.
Repeal Goldwater-Nichols, and we might be able to convert a decent hunk of Active Army to Guard/Reserve for a small reduction in personnel costs, but that's a long shot.
Here's the other danger: the lag time between the replenishment orders being placed and actual delivery. Last summer, as we shipped more munitions to Ukraine (and our own inventories began to drop), DoD placed an order to replace Stingers, Javelins and other weapons shipped to the Ukrainians. Projected deliveries to backfill our depleted stocks will occur in about 30 months. You read that correctly.
Stop all of the wasteful spending on
DEI /CRT indoctrination and get rid of
DEI Admin (Divide Exclude Indoctrinate)
has no place in our military . Redirect those billions in replenishing ourweapons
I would like to support the first proposition (that any increase less than inflation is a de facto cut) with data. One of USAF's Mitchell Institute Aerospace Advantage podcasts this spring, reports that the cost of spares is inflating at rate of 10% across the board. Also that this number has been stable for several years.
Got to love the double speak and half truths. Also I work in factory field service on specialty machinery I'm seeing inflation about 15 to 20 % in the industrial space. My friends that do cnc machine repair and like trades are seeing see the same for inflation if not more. That also doesn't couldn't lead time for some machines that can be 6 to 18 months out these are for the machines that you need to make the parts to parts anything. We have got serval jobs not for being cheaper but the other guy was two years out on a new machine and we were only a year
It's a joke. A bottomless pit in which we throw treasure and get back empty promises of transformational wunderwaffen that fail to deliver. Can't even get an audit of the budget.
We squandered our opportunities to fix this problem 15-20 years ago and exacerbated it with legislative and acquisition systems that reward bad behavior led by a political party that is destroying the educational base of the country.
Learn to speak Chinese.
This argument will have to be repeated many times during the battle that is about to be waged over the FY24 budget. Increasing defense spending to keep pace with inflation in a shrinking budgetary environment will be hard for a party which instinctively wants to cut defense spending. This may explain why the Biden Administration is tripping over itself to try and get the PRC to the negotiating table now. If they can craft some paper-thin deal, they can declare the crisis over and pass through real dollar defense cuts.
People said similar things about, steam power, aviation etc. when all that was introduced. Thing is to, is to make sure they work are affordable before deciding to build a fleet around them. Unlike what they did with the LCS, EMALS, AWE and the advanced Gun System,
"If we must cut, where do you cut?"
The Army. Sorry guys, after twenty-years of a conveyor belt of funding, you're gonna have to take a haircut. Half your GO's had no idea about COIN resulting in zero progress in the AO's. Bigger fight is on the horizon and invading a country isn't one of the aspects we're looking to do.
My life today is vastly superior to thirty years ago. I live in a quiet, safe community. I swim in a sea of instantaneous media content. We American have it great, no civilization has had so many folks live so well.
As a kid, my football coach was mailed cassette tapes of English TV where we could see clips of the team we were following, The Arsenal. A big tube tv on a stand playing streaky, blurred, images. Now, I have a TV the size of a high school blackboard, with The Arsenal in glorious high definition. Live. From London.
Life here is great, and it's only getting better.