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America Needs to Step Up the Military to Keep China at Bay
According to a report by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, “In constant dollars, defense spending fell from $768 billion in 2010 to $595 billion in 2015, a decline of nearly one-fourth, and President Obama’s final budget request was for only $583 billion” The report cited defense analyst Katherine Blakely, who has written that the rate of this drawdown “has been faster than any other post-war drawdown since the Korean War at a compound annual growth rate of -5.5 percent.” History will rightly assign the reigning commander-in-chief the lion’s share of the blame, but the so called military spending “sequester” was a bipartisan act that has yet to be reversed.
The Navy’s Much-Hyped Electromagnetic Railgun May End Up Dead in The Water
A May 2016 report from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment found that large caliber guns could fire an HVP between 10 and 30 nautical miles at Mach 3, faster than conventional unguided rounds.
Kushner Has No Idea What He Is Saying About the Middle East
Eric Edelman, former ambassador to Turkey, tells me, “The Palestinian-Israeli conflict deserves to be settled — on its own terms.” He continues, “For years the conventional wisdom was that the key to resolving the conflicts of and providing security in the Middle East was an Arab-Israeli peace deal. It was never true.” However, “to put it back at the center of things now, when the strategic circumstances and conflicts in the region are in so much turmoil and so clearly disconnected from anything to do with the occupied territories, is really surprising and also a little disheartening,” he observes.
Sam Dastyari is a Chinese ‘agent of influence’: ex-intelligence chief
"There is evidence that he may have been recruited as an agent of influence," said Ross Babbage, a former head of strategic analysis at the Office of National Assessments, the government's peak intelligence adviser. "That's my belief."
Trump’s military buildup still a mirage
“To go back to a Reagan-era tagline," she added, "where’s the beef?”
ASSESSING THE REBUILD: WILL WE HAVE THE STRATEGY AND RESOURCES TO REBUILD THE MILITARY IN FY19?
Evaluate the prospects for the Trump Administration’s goal of rebuilding the military.