Pentagon Caught In A Perfect Political Storm

American Spectator, Free Republic
Tue, 11/20/2018 - 3:02pm

The Democrat takeover of the House means ever further setbacks U.S. defense readiness. Sebastian Junger’s book The Perfect Storm chronicled an unusual weather event when several storm fronts combined to create a storm of unimaginable strength. Years of cuts in defense spending, the atrophying of our forces strained by seventeen years of war, President Trump’s sudden decision to cut Pentagon spending willy-nilly, and the Democrats’ taking control of the House has created a perfect political storm that will batter the Pentagon and enormously damage our national security.

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