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Although I agree that there seems to be a trend that projects recently go way over budget, I hate the fact that reporters always talk about the "Cold War Threat" We all know what that was like, In my opinion, if sh*t would have hit the fan during the cold war, the only thing left would have been some radioactive swamp land in Nevada...My point being, do reporters not think about China? China has so many troops, in my opinion, we need a larger military, and we need new weapon systems like the F22, JFS, Comanche, and other systems that I'm sure we have developed but are classified (a la whatever production ACFT the "predator" led to). Even operations like Iraq would be benefited by these new weapon systems. I work at Depot, all the ACFT that are working on here, F15, C5, C141, C130, & C17, all of the ACFT with the exception of the C17 is old, the F15A-D Models require so much work now, I can't go into detail for obvious reasons, but they can't suck much more life out of these models, especially A & B models, C & D models have a few years left in them before we start to see some of the major issues we have with the A & B Models. It seems to me that the public perception, to include reporters, is that because we have had the B52 around for over 50 years, and the Soviet Union no longer exists that we can do that with any weapon system and still lead the pack. We, the USA cannot get complacent. The world in my opinion is more dangerous now than during the Cold War. During the Cold War the US kept its allies in check, and the USSR kept its "allies" or more accurately its "Puppet Governments" in check. Who does this now? Look at the current Iraq & North Korea situations. Iraq the US created in a round about way, BUT, in my opinion, I don't think I Iraq would play as many games as it does now 15 to 20 years ago. Yes, they fought Iran, and think they still would have invaded Kuwait, but who knows. North Korea, if the USSR was still around, I don't believe that North Korea would be acting as crazy as it has lately. China can't even seem to get North Korea to give up its nuclear program. Just my thoughts, but the American people, and it seems the government have an obvious "God" Complex when it comes to the rest of the world, yes we are the only "superpower" left, but when you have the only "superpower" deploying its military in every corner of the world, Yes it is "power projection" but at the same time it is spreading our military so thinly that who knows what would happen. I would be willing to bet, if you ask the common American if we had troops in Bosnia, most would not know, or even care. I could go on for hours, this is a touchy subject to me, not only because I have friends in the military still, not because I am a vet, mostly because I love my country, we have our share of problems, but the US is a great country, we just need to open our eyes to the threats of today, it isn't only Terrorists or rogue states, no matter how broke the Russian military is, they still have hundreds if not thousands of nukes, and a very large military. China is huge also. Ok, I gotta step off my soap box...sorry about the long post...
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