Aaron Fox
Well-known member
It isn't entirely Clinton's idea, those defense cuts. The real problem was that the USSR fell apart and there wasn't any big enemy to go up against. Remember China back then wasn't the China of today, as outsourcing just started to give China the funds needed to modernize everything back then and those take time to ramp up.Another Victim of the various Clinton defense cuts was the refueling of a fair few LA class subs and at the very least the Virginia and possibly the California class crusiers which would have been modernized a fair bit as well. Oh and restarting B-2 production to increase the fleet to around 50 aircraft and since R@D was paid for they would have only cost around 40% per bird as compared to the previous production run. And of course the planned F-22 production run got cut back putting us on the path to eventually having less than 200 made
With no real enemy to fight, Congress started to go back to its usual shenanigans of withholding funds from the military.