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America’s Gravest Strategic Danger
Flush With Cash, Running on Empty (IV)
Chuck Spinney
This
the fourth in a series occasional essays describing the vacuous nature
of the political debate over how much to spend on defense.
Pentagon
spending has not really been an issue in the 2016 Presidential
campaign. With the exception of Ted Cruz, the positions of the
remaining candidates have been vague about even the size of the defense
budget. As near as I can tell: (1) Clinton’s position on the size of
the Pentagon’s budget is that she will establish a blue ribbon
commission to review defense policy and spending levels; (2) Trump
claims without detail he can make the military great again but cut the
budget at the same time; (3) Cruz says he will copy President Reagan's
spending spree by using tax cuts to stimulate the economy and ramping up
defense spending to 4% of GDP (more on this plan in a subsequent
blaster); and (4) Sanders seems to want to cut the Pentagon’s budget,
but has not detailed how.
No
candidate appears to have noticed that President Obama has allowed the
Pentagon to plant a defense budget time bomb in the form of
modernization bow wave, although Obama's bow wave has been reported
repeatedly in the defense circles, e.g., see 1, 2, 3, 4. http://chuckspinney.blogspot.com/2016/03/americas-gravest-strategic-danger.html
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