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Of all the posters on this board, Rainman is the one offering the most convincing impression of a Russian bot. Actually, it would be more to his credit if he wasn't real.

 

Nah. He thinks America is doing the heavy lifting on defeating ISIS. It's Russia.

 

Honest question for people who know more than me. We spend $400 billion more than any other country on the planet on our military. How can we sit there and try to sell the idea that it needs to be rebuilt?

 

No. Russia has been killing the good Islamists in Syria.

 

There has never been a military in the history of the world that didn't honestly believe it needed to buy a lot more stuff and have more to spend on personnel. Pick a country, even Tonga, you'll find the same.

 

Fair enough. I was a little astounded looking at the numbers. We spent $611.2 billion a year on the military. The next nine countries on the list don't match that.

 

It’s not only the size and lethality of the force. It’s all the things that go into making it ready to deploy anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice, and win once it gets there.

Along with a downsizing of the military comes disengagement from a lot of “our” affairs all over the world. Some may think that’s a good thing, but others look at our involvement in world affairs or lack thereof, and think “rebuild.”

 

Pick another country; Tonga's military is a well-oiled machine.

 

Let's take a case in point, Korea. It would take months to transport the number of ground forces estimated to be required to "win" a full scale war with North Korea to the peninsula. Months. There aren't enough transport ships. Those take awhile to build, and are seldom a high priority in the Navy budget because nobody makes admiral ferrying soldiers around.

 

Isn’t he one of your guys @Neutral Corner?

You’d think people would have learned after the Jill Stein recount.

 

Sounds like Javanka have diversified beyond Maggie Haberman for their leaking.

 

Some back-of-napkin math:

Everyone who deployed to Afghanistan was prescribed an anti-malaria medication they had to take daily.

At, say, a dollar a pill, and a peak of 100,000 troops, that’s $36 million/year on just one medication.

And the cost of treating and replacing someone who forgot to take the pills and contracted malaria is exponentially more expensive.