Shipping Out On Sequestration

Shipping Out On Sequestration

   I received an email link today from my friend, Joseph John, a retired Navy Captain, and Chairman of the Combat Veterans for Congress.  It is a great entry for the opening salvo on the Strategic Theory page of this site.  He links to a interview with Admiral (Ret) James A. Lyons. It demonstrates how domestic policy discussions can have massive impacts on our national security and that when the President places a higher priority on political power than ensuring the safety and security of our nation, he is courting disaster. A strong economy is vital to maintaining a strong military, and a strong military is equally vital to protecting our economic and political security. It demonstrates how important it is for political leaders to communicate these links and to present a coordinated national strategy to maintain our nation’s freedoms.  It also demonstrates what a devastating failure President Obama, and unfortunately much of the Republican leadership, is on this front.

   Here is the opening introduction from CAPT John: 

   “Going over the Fiscal Cliff will result in sequestration, yet the devastation resulting from sequestration is being covered up by the left of center liberal media establishment.  Please view the video in the below listed link as Admiral James Lyons, Jr. USNA ’52 USN (Ret), former Commander-in-Chief of the US Pacific Fleet, explains what sequestration will mean to the US Navy; it will result in having less ships in the entire US Fleet that the US Navy had before World War I------and less US Navy ships than Admiral Lyons had in the US Pacific Fleet, when it was under his command.   Sequestration will not only unilaterally decrease the capability of the US Navy; it will also unilaterally decrease the capability of each of the other service branches.  The American people should ask themselves why the Commander-in-Chief is unilaterally decreasing the capabilities of the US Armed Forces in face of the serious increasing threats facing the nation from China, Russia, Iran, and Islamic Terrorists."

http://www.foxbusiness.com/on-air/lou-dobbs-tonight/index.html#/v/2000966522001/would-sequestration-cuts-be-disastrous-for-us-military/?playlist_id=164630