Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level

[agent46]

25. This is just another draw-down

What a disingenuous statement, framed to sound like fiscal responsibility with the defense budget.

Fact: Warfare has changed permanently. There's no longer much use for so-called "large land-war" operations. This draw-down will be followed (as draw-downs are every 10 -15 years) by retooling with next generation weapon technologies and automations. Private contracts with mercenary security companies will supply trained manpower on a mission by mission basis. CIA sponsored "rebel forces" will do the dirty work in the civilian population centers of our enemy of the week. This reconfiguration of the army will support the trend of using small team covert and intelligence ops which are also preferable because they happen off the mainstream media grid.

This may also be happening now because the empire has begun to contract after decades of over-reach just as Rome did. I don't believe for a second our astronomically bloated defense budget is going away, nor our "permanent war footing."