PROJECT 2025 – #14 – July 16, 2024
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This blog was created as a public service. It is a Cliff’s Notes version of the actual 900 pages of text found in PROJECT 2025. It is not a commentary. Most importantly - It DOES NOT reflect my opinion in any way.
This blog was created as a public service. It is a Cliff’s Notes version of the actual 900 pages of text found in PROJECT 2025. It is not a commentary. Most importantly - It DOES NOT reflect my opinion in any way.
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE – Part 3
US ARMY
Reforms
1. Increase the army budget to remain the world's preeminent land power.
2. Increase the Army by 50,000 to handle two major regional contingencies simultaneously.
3. Stop using the army as a test bed for social evolution.
4. Revamp Army school curricula to concentrate on preparation for large-scale land
5. Address the underlying causal issues driving increasing army suicide rates, which have surpassed pre-World War Two rates and are now eclipsing the rate among civilians.
1. Increase the army budget to remain the world's preeminent land power.
2. Increase the Army by 50,000 to handle two major regional contingencies simultaneously.
3. Stop using the army as a test bed for social evolution.
4. Revamp Army school curricula to concentrate on preparation for large-scale land
5. Address the underlying causal issues driving increasing army suicide rates, which have surpassed pre-World War Two rates and are now eclipsing the rate among civilians.
US NAVY
Today, the People’s Republic of China People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) can challenge the USN’s ability to accomplish its mission in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
US NAVY -Reforms
1. Build a fleet of more than 355 ships.
2. Harness willingness to tolerate risk so that “good enough” systems can be fielded rapidly.
Today, the People’s Republic of China People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) can challenge the USN’s ability to accomplish its mission in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
US NAVY -Reforms
1. Build a fleet of more than 355 ships.
2. Harness willingness to tolerate risk so that “good enough” systems can be fielded rapidly.
US Air Force
The U.S. Air Force today lacks a force structure with the lethality, survivability, and capacity to fight a major conflict with a great power like China, deter nuclear threats, and meet its other operational requirements. The result is an Air Force that is the oldest, smallest, and least ready in its history. This makes for a reduction of 996 aircraft by 2027. The net result is a force that is smaller, older, and less ready at a time when demand is burgeoning.
US Air Force – Reforms
1. Adopt a two-war force defense strategy with scenarios
5. Develop and buy larger quantities of advanced mid-range stealth weapons
6. Accelerate the development and production of the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile in light of Chinas nuclear modernization breakout.
7. Produce the next generation of air dominant system of systems.
The U.S. Air Force today lacks a force structure with the lethality, survivability, and capacity to fight a major conflict with a great power like China, deter nuclear threats, and meet its other operational requirements. The result is an Air Force that is the oldest, smallest, and least ready in its history. This makes for a reduction of 996 aircraft by 2027. The net result is a force that is smaller, older, and less ready at a time when demand is burgeoning.
US Air Force – Reforms
1. Adopt a two-war force defense strategy with scenarios
5. Develop and buy larger quantities of advanced mid-range stealth weapons
6. Accelerate the development and production of the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile in light of Chinas nuclear modernization breakout.
7. Produce the next generation of air dominant system of systems.
US Marines
The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) is the maritime land force of the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy. It serves a critical role as an expeditionary amphibious force that can project power from sea to shore In addition, the USMC spent nearly two decades fighting counterinsurgency wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and developed capabilities that were specifically geared to those fights but have limited utility in scenarios involving evenly matched and advanced enemies or amphibious operations that are necessary for the projection of naval power.
US Marines – Reforms
1. Transform USMC force structure
3. Increase the number of rocket artillery batteries, upgraded light armored vehicle companies, unmanned aerial systems, and anti-air systems, develop long-range strike missiles and anti-ship missiles for the Corps, and modernize USMC infantry equipment.
The U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) is the maritime land force of the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy. It serves a critical role as an expeditionary amphibious force that can project power from sea to shore In addition, the USMC spent nearly two decades fighting counterinsurgency wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and developed capabilities that were specifically geared to those fights but have limited utility in scenarios involving evenly matched and advanced enemies or amphibious operations that are necessary for the projection of naval power.
US Marines – Reforms
1. Transform USMC force structure
3. Increase the number of rocket artillery batteries, upgraded light armored vehicle companies, unmanned aerial systems, and anti-air systems, develop long-range strike missiles and anti-ship missiles for the Corps, and modernize USMC infantry equipment.
This section was written by Christopher Miller
[BIO – Wikipedia - BA, GWU and MA, Naval War College; Colonel (ret.) US Special Forces; 8/20 – Director National Counterterrorism Center; 9/20 – Acting DOD Secretary]
[HISTORICAL NOTE – 5 January 2021 “(Miller) issued orders which prohibited deploying DC National Guard members with weapons, helmets, body armor or riot control agents without his personal approval…after rioters breached the Capitol Police perimeter, Miller waited more than three hours before authorizing the deployment of the National Guard.”]
[HISTORICAL NOTE – 5 January 2021 “(Miller) issued orders which prohibited deploying DC National Guard members with weapons, helmets, body armor or riot control agents without his personal approval…after rioters breached the Capitol Police perimeter, Miller waited more than three hours before authorizing the deployment of the National Guard.”]
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