'Hysteria' in Washington to increase Pentagon’s massive budget: Analyst
A recent report by a panel of military experts warning that US military supremacy has eroded drastically has created “hysteria” in Washington to increase the Pentagon’s already massive budget, says an American political analyst.
The congressionally-chartered report released last month by the National Defense Strategy Commission said the US is likely unable to wage two wars at once and could even lose a war against China or Russia individually.
“This [report] will provoke hysteria here in Washington to spend even more money, even though it’s quite clear the problem is a lack of strategy and a lack of focus and that throwing more money at the problem won’t do any good at all,” said James Jatras, a former US Senate foreign policy analyst.
The report by the panel of 12 former national security officials and experts came after President Donald Trump said in October he would order his Cabinet to cut their fiscal 2020 budget proposals by 5 percent because of rising deficits.
Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan recently confirmed that the Pentagon was carrying out an order to plan a $700 billion budget — $16 billion less than fiscal 2019 and $33 billion less than originally planned for fiscal 2020.
“I don’t think anybody should take seriously the idea that there would be any cuts to US military spending,” Jatras told Press TV on Friday.
“Even the Trump administration is saying we need to spend more on defense rather than less, even though we spend ten times as much as the Russians and three times as much as the Chinese,” he added.
The report praised the Trump administration for focusing more on Russia and China but it claimed that Trump’s new National Defense Strategy is insufficiently resourced.
US Secretary of Defense James Mattis has also warned that Russia and China are challenging America’s military dominance with technological advances, “placing the international order under assault."
He has said the US military dominance in sea, land and air was being threatened with Russian and Chinese technological advances.
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