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Originally Posted by dragoon500ly
As for the Air Farce, err Force....The needs to control the skies of our nation as well as the skies over our deployed troops should be paramount. They need to have the best, most advanced aircraft that we can field and in such numbers that they seize and hold control of the air anywhere in the world.
The Department of Defense is not the most efficient organization in the world, we need to streamline and prioritize what our defense budget is spent on. There should be no waste and there should be no cost-overruns!
Just a few thoughts.....
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No cost overruns. Nice in theory. Not so easy in practice. What do you do when the unexpected happens? Kill the program(s)? There goes your "best, most advanced aircraft that we can field and in such numbers" such as the F-35. Killed by a budget axe because it went over-budget. Ditto almost every completely new weapon system. Missile defense? Over-budget. New ships? Over-budget. (Well, most of them. IIRC there's one class that came in under budget.)
Want to cut waste in the DOD? Cut out 99% of the nukes. Damned things are obscenely expensive to build and more so to maintain. We could do just fine with a tiny fraction of the inventory that we have. The hundreds of billions saved could go towards other, better weapon systems. But any time that anyone even hints at reducing the absurdly large stockpile that the U.S. has the right-wingnuts cry that whomever is suggesting it is a commie or some such nonsense.