Pres. Obama, Sec’y of Defense Gates Want to Cut the Military
Monday, April 6, Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, announced plans of the Obama administration to make major changes to the U.S. military. The intended goal of the administration is to shift focus from larger, more conventional warfare to smaller, unconventional wars like Iraq and Afghanistan or insurgents from Pakistan who disrupt their host nation and raid into neighboring Afghanistan.
I like the idea of focusing on an agile, unconventional military and I see scrapping the F-22 as a potentially worthwhile deal (how long has that thing been in development?) but I think it’s ridiculous to not keep a large, standing military with “dumb” weapons like rifles as well as putting dollars into developing new technology planes and submarines. I don’t like the idea of throwing away the conventional for the unconventional; I’d prefer that we utilize both.
