U.S. Army officials say defense spending cuts killed the Ground Combat Vehicle, but this latest modernization setback fits right into the service’s growing portfolio of failed attempts to replace its Cold War vehicles and helicopters, defense experts said.
Harry Kazianis, a non-resident Senior Fellow at the China Policy Institute (University of Nottingham) and Managing Editor of the Washington, DC-based international affairs publication The National Interest interviewed John Stillion, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA).
Todd Harrison of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, wrote an op-ed earlier this week for The Hill newspaper, saying the Pentagon’s rhetoric does not match what in it’s five-year spending plan.https://goo.gl/r4U8q0
With a few strokes on a keyboard, the Navy’s top brass avoids shrinking its 280-ship fleet next year by simply reclassifying a couple of hospital ships and its small patrol craft deployed overseas.
Russia’s invasion of Crimea has led many pundits to compare President Barack Obama’s foreign policies with those of President Jimmy Carter. The similarities are difficult to ignore, up to a point.
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