Difference between revisions of "US military"

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US military readiness has plummeted in recent years, largely because of overcommitment to the US invasion of Iraq
US military spending has been steadily declining since World War II (as a percentage of both GDP and DS) with neither political party being notably more responsible than the other.
Religious control of the US military
Privatization of the US military
US military policy (to be created)
- The Powell Doctrine was Colin Powell's informal Gulf War policy defining conditions under which military action might be acceptable
- The Weinberger Doctrine was the previous policy, set forth by Caspar Weinberger on 1984-11-28, upon which the Powell Doctrine was based

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~~Conservapedia~~ no corresponding article; see conservapedia:Category:Military (as of 2008-02-11)
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News & Views

2007-10-18 New U.S. naval strategy: Preventing wars: "In the first major revision of U.S. naval strategy in 25 years, maritime officials said Wednesday they plan to focus more on humanitarian missions and improving international cooperation as a way to prevent conflicts. .. "We believe that preventing wars is as important as winning wars," said the new strategy announced by the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard." Is this the non-evangelized branches of the military taking a carefully calculated step towards halting Bush madness, specifically the potential US invasion of Iran and possible attempts to turn the US into a police state?
2007-09-30 A pragamatic admiral takes the helm as the US military's top officer: "Admiral Michael Mullen, former chief of US naval operations, takes over as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Monday from Marine Corps General Peter Pace at a ceremony at a Civil War-era fort overlooking the Potomac River."
2007-08-13 US and UK Defence - To be one Market?: "President Bush and Prime Minister Blair have today signed a Defense Trade Cooperation Treaty which will further strengthen and deepen the effort between our respective defense establishments to achieve fully interoperable forces, and to leverage the strength of our defense industries in direct support of our armed forces."

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 ** The [[wikipedia:Powell Doctrine|Powell Doctrine]] was [[Colin Powell]]'s informal [[Gulf War]] policy defining conditions under which military action might be acceptable
 ** The [[wikipedia:Weinberger Doctrine|Weinberger Doctrine]] was the previous policy, set forth by [[Caspar Weinberger]] on 1984-11-28, upon which the Powell Doctrine was based
-==Scuttlebutt==
-{{excerpt|An anonymous poster [http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2008/04/gop-version-of-dont-ask-dont-tell-truth.html#9044941717231313065 said on ~2008-04-27], on [[Contrary Brin]]:}}
-About "More Crimes Against the Military," congratulations [[David Brin|David]] on being the first one I've seen bring this up anywhere. As a Naval officer and pilot, I've seen this first hand for about 3 years now. I've had close friends sent to [[US occupation of Iraq|Iraq]] and embedded in Army units. Some of them are there still. I very narrowly avoided a 15-month tour over there myself. I was not, nor were any of my friends, volunteers. We are all Navy PILOTS, individually being taken out of our OPERATIONAL squadrons and sent to fill Army ground jobs. Can you imagine the inefficiency of that? The government spent millions of dollars and several years training us to fly airplanes, and now they're sending us to do jobs that apparently we can be trained for in 2 weeks (that's how long the training program is, and it's the same one regardless of the specific job assigned). But wait, there's a long-term effect too. Pilots are leaving the military in droves specifically to avoid these tours, forcing the government to train even MORE people to take our places.
-Meanwhile, I have to laugh when I read that the Army will expand by 70,000 soldiers. Where do they expect to get these people? They're obviously undermanned if they're taking pilots to serve as ground officers. The military has already relaxed age requirements, requirements for recruits to have high school diplomas, not to have a criminal record, not to have used certain drugs, not to have tattoos above the neck, and more. And they're still not meeting their self-imposed recruiting goals. Believe me, I've seen the result in the Navy and it isn't pretty. We've had more legal and disciplinary problems in the last two years than I saw in the previous ten.
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