President Trump has said that America need to reconstruct its military , which is laughable inmany elbow room . But he ’s right in one esteem . We need more bomb calorimeter . Why ? Because the US has dropped so many bomb in the fighting against ISIS over the retiring two year that we ’re running out .
As military news program web site Defense Onereports , America is campaign short on the GPS - guided Small Diameter Bombs made by Boeing , new fashion model made by Raytheon , and even breeze - to - air missile . Many of the exist reserve of bomb calorimeter hold by the US armed services are being diverted from the Pacific region to the Middle East and Africa , where the motive is reportedly most urgent .
But this is n’t a raw problem . There have been admonition from the Pentagon for almost a twelvemonth that our intensive bombardment of ISIS prey around the world couldlead to a famine . We go into a alike problem near theend of 2015 .
Since the beginning of Operation Inherent Resolve in August of 2014 , the US has spent over $ 11.9 billion on military operations against ISIS . That includes over 19,607 strike in Iraq and Syria alone , at a cost of roughly$12.8 million per day . And that does n’t even look airstrikes in places like Afghanistan , Somalia , and Yemen .
That ’s a fuck - ton of bombardment . And someone has to supply those bombs so we can keep constantly flunk the shit out of those body politic . But the US military is dropping them quicker than they can be restocked .
“ These are not exciting kinds of weapon ; these are mundane variety of weapons , ” PACOM commander Admiral Harry Harris tell the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday .
“ But they ’re absolutely decisive to what we ’re assay to do , not only … against North Korea , but also in the fights in the Middle East , ” Admiral Harris stay on .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFSEgwI6RgI
Yes , I pretend you could call a GPS - steer dud mundane . But you could also call it incredibly destructive and expensive . I do n’t think there ’s any motion that ISIS are the bad guys here . But if the world ’s enceinte military is using so many bomb that it ’s literally bleed out , it might be a good time to look at if there is another scheme that could be employed .
After all , Trump did promise to deliver a ace - duper secret plan to shoot down ISIS in 30 Day once in office . That plan ? He tell the Pentagon they have 30 days to arrive upwith a design . Tomorrow marks Trump ’s 100th day in part , and we ’re still waiting on that , I guess .
smashing plan , dude . In the meantime , maybe order some more bombs .
[ Defense One ]
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