Entire nations, ethnicity's and religions have been wiped from the face of the earth. Others have been persecuted for millennial.

I'm alright with the vehicles, many are so large they don't lend themselves to routine use and if needed, their presence alone can act as a deterrent. I don't see that as A Bad Thing. It would be a bigger waste if we did nothing with them, and I'm completely fine with these things finding a disproportionate 2nd life…

This and much cleaner warheads. More modern nuclear arsenals aren't nearly as dirty as older ones and outside of ground-burst nukes which is the targeting necessity against ICBM's and mountainside complexes, fallout would be managebly safe.

Your charged language cheapens this discussion. Calling it propaganda just seems like an excuse to not discuss anything. There really is no higher praise in the army than "I would go to war with him." Exactly this question is used in peer-grading systems in Ranger School and I believe RASP: "would you go to war with…

Russia historically has retreated into itself when faced with war, and been survived by it's strategic depth, and General Winter. Re: Napolean, WWII most notably.

You think this is just about the US? Our pride, the Army, the Pentagon and American foreign policy?

At the end of the day, we're losing this war, and we kicked guys like this to the curb.

And FYI, all military installations have the same driving laws as Virginia/DC.

That is a lot of negative G's. Probably 55 to 0 in... what, a quarter of a second?
That guy was probably not all right, seat belt or not.

The concern over operating near troops reminds me of cost being thrown at ABM. You measure the cost of a missile defense system against the economic harm of a nuclear/chemical missile attack on a city/cities.

Trust me: even infantrymen in the US Army boast of a sniper or sharpshooters ability to hit optics, sights and sensors.

A change to our social welfare programs and tax code are required to fix our budget, not just "cut the DoD."

Just take a snippet from a lauded war veteran, former President out of all historical context to get a few rec's. Bravo. Hell, take the actual comment out of the context of it's own speech! Let's start there — even in that, his closing speech, Eisenhower conceded the necessity of the "military-industrial complex." He…

I guess American's taken hostage overseas are SOL. I guess Haiti can dig their own dead out of their own rubble. I guess Russia can just annex all of Ukraine. I guess Bashar Al Asad can just gas his own people. I guess South Korea better create an indigenous aerospace industry, no more F-16's or F-15K's for them — or…

Military spending is the bogeyman because its discretionary (or optional in a sense) spending, but — true story — we run a budget deficit JUST ON SPENDING REQUIRED BY LAW, i.e., social security, medicare etc. This statement was true before Obamacare aka the Affordable Healthcare Act and I think had been true since the…

Hypothetically, you get 3 small aircraft carriers to 2 big ones. Same # of planes. Save money! Be in more places! Well, no, because now you have 3 ships, 3 life cycle costs and need to increase the Navy's personnel footprint. You didn't increase pilots but each ship needs to be manned and just the personnel increase…

This best-looking discussion is grossly incomplete without mentioning the V Bombers. But although the Vulcan got all the fame because of her bomber service through to the Falklands, one of her sisters is, for my money, the best looking aircraft every, without qualification: the Handley Page Victor.

People don't appreciate World War 2 for what it was: a war Germany and Japan could gamble on. They both lost, but they both had riches in their eyes and dozens of millions of people suffered for it.

WWII; bleh,

A bit you overlooked, at least as I understand it: