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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2079)10/11/2000 12:23:33 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (4) of 10042
 
I don't see that the large expenditure on salaries justifies a larger military budget. We spend more per soldier because we believe that a smaller force of trained soldiers equipped with modern devices will be more effective than a larger force of untrained conscripts. There is absolutely no need for us to try and match the military manpower of, say, the Chinese, especially since the antedeluvian Chinese airlift, sealift, and logistic capabilities make it impossible for the Chinese to deploy more than a tiny fraction of this manpower in any theater where we would face them.

The question, simply, is this: do the current level of threat and the current probable missions justify an increase in military spending? I do not think that they do.
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