Bill Gertz On The Peaceful Decline of America

The general concept of deterrence doesn’t seem too difficult to understand does it? It is more cost effective to have the biggest and strongest military so that ‘competitors’ don’t find value in investing in trying to beat us. It looks like we messed that up. Today on Frank Gaffney’s Secure Freedom Radio, Washington Times geo-political editor Bill Gertz explains how Obama’s defense cuts will cost us more in the long run as the not-so-peaceful rise of China will force us to up the ante. Plus, Russia fires up its own missile defense program now that they have diplomatically neutered ours. We are beginning to see what ‘reset’ looks like and it’s not in our favor.

“What’s significant here is that when Defense Secretary Gates canceled further production of the F-22, the most modern fighter in the world, he cited China’s inability to field a fifth generation fighter comparable to it until 2020. Well here they have already rolled out a taxi test of one and it’s clear that they’re going to beat that deadline. So we’ve canceled a major program built on faulty intelligence. This is not the first time.” – Bill Gertz

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