Comments on: Winslow T. Wheeler

By: CarlosinATx

CarlosinATx — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:10:51 +0000

Wheeler's comments about the F-22/F-35 acquisition programs is typical of the non-strategic thinkers who similar criticized the F-15/F-16/FA-18 acquisitions of the '80's/90's. The F-22's were the first new fighter design purchased by the USAF in over 20 years! It replacing a 60's era design aircraft that are literally falling out of the sky whose maintenance costs have long since surpassed its operating costs. The F-35 program is replacing 3 separate elderly aircraft from the '70's design era who are facing similar rising maintenance costs: F-16/FA-18/AV-8B. The military isn't buying these aircraft to fight today's air battles, they are buying them to fight the likely air battles of 2015-2040. Just prior to the start of WW2, the German military planners told Hitler that the US was militarily backwards in the technological sense and the British were unwilling to spend money on developing jet engine technology. No one pushed Hitler into invading Poland or the former Czechoslovakia . He did it because he was a megalomaniac who had ambitions of being the new Caesar. That is, of course, besides the fact that the financing of Hitler's military build-up was done by the treasonous Prescott Bush and Co. The modern military/security industrial complex was built in a day and to demolish it is likely going to take just as long.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:53:09 +0000

Yes but according to Ritter the US can already more than adequately destroy 90% of Russia’s nuclear arsenal in a first strike with second and third strikes to follow. Ritter states that the US does not believe in MAD it believes in nuclear supremacy. With this in mind it might pay to investigate whether or not the AMS is simply a political bargaining chip.

By: Carl

Carl — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:08:42 +0000

Yes, no one knows what the USA may put in those silos. Sanders Research had a great article about those bases, which are really an effort just to plant the flag of the empire in two more nations.

By: Claus-Erik Hamle

Claus-Erik Hamle — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:58:24 +0000

The most expensive post on the Pentagon budget are the anti-missile missiles in Poland. Listen to Scott Ritter on antiwar radio. The Pentagon aims to achieve a disarming first-strike capability. This leads to Russian Launch On Warning and Nuclear War by mistake. Bloody fools in the Pentagon as Brigadier Harbottle so correctly stated. Trident missile engineer Bob Aldridge-www.plrc.org-resigned because a disarming and unanswerable first-strike capability is suicidal.