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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
If you're going to focus on the North then you'd better be spending more then 2% at least over the next 10 years as we need the replacement ships for the navy including ice friendly ships. upgrades to our airforce for quick reqponse, and improvements to our sensor nets and intelligence gathering.
I want to add that the concept of peacekeeping is over and useless. Putting lightly armed blue beret'd troops into trouble spots is stupid,
Peacekeeping has to be peace enforcement especially in this day and age of rebel groups and insurgents.
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I might agree on peacekeeping thinking about it more. Keep in mind you follow the military and people like me are casual observers just making casual comments.
You advocate for more military spending it seems, so, lets say you were to get your 2%... where do you spend it.
While I promote adding muscle up north, lets face it, Russia will outclass us no matter what we spend. But we need to be seen to be making a real effort there, I think.
Doubling the military budget is not going to happen anyway, but Im sure you already know that.
Despite all the craziness in the world I feel pretty safe where we are at military spending where its at, and I dont even think another 1 percent of GDP would make us much safer.