Military Spending

Col. Peters has some words of wisdom for our political leaders and generals. We are still buying mighty expensive toys that don't necessarily help us in the current fight we find ourselves in.

"Precision-targeting systems and other superweapons are dangerously seductive to civilian leaders looking for military wins on the cheap. Exaggerated promises about capabilities — made by contractors, lobbyists and bedazzled generals — delude presidents and prime ministers into believing that war can be swift and immaculate, with minimal friendly or even enemy casualties."

Basicly he is saying, THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR A SOLDIER ON THE GROUND. Not yet at least, although I've seen some robots that were pretty cool, but most likely not ready for prime time, and probably would just be a force mulitiplier in any case. We would like to believe it, though, because it gets us off the hook to some degree when the inevitable blood get spilled. We need to spend money wiser, for things that help us in the fight today, not the fight we didn't have (USSR) yesterday.