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| Russian Akula-Class Submarine Hunting Submarine (Courtesy of FAS) |
For several weeks, a Russian Akula Class nuclear submarine
stalked US Sovereign waters with impunity.
The Akula class submarine is designed as a submarine hunter. Their primary missions are to stalk US Navy ballistic missile submarines and destroy them before they can launch in the case of war. The fact that one could
patrol, undetected, for weeks along the US Gulf Coast, within striking distance of Jacksonville, FL and King's Bay, GA, both cities that house large US Naval bases. Among the armament routinely carried by the Akulas are long range cruise missiles that could have easily created numerous casualties at both these Naval bases from the Gulf.
Meanwhile, nuclear capable Russian bombers (aircraft)
crossed into US sovereign airspace near Alaska and California over the Forth of July weekend. There is little doubt that these were planned probes of our national defense capabilities.
Let's recall a few short months ago when
Obama told Medevev that he would have more latitude
to expose our national defense secrets after his re-election. Obama
made his statement believing that the microphone was off. Instead, the
world heard his statement and the outgoing Russian president's
response.
These events come not long after the UN's failed attempt to strip the US
of our Second Amendment through a treaty. They come as Obama attempts
to campaign on reducing federal spending by starting with cuts to
national defense. The first cuts usually go to training funds and
intelligence programs. For those who weren't paying attention in the
late 1990s, intelligence programs were cut back by the Clinton
administration. Cross-agency communications became muddled and
encumbered. Then on September 11, 2001, Al Qaeda initiated their forth
major attack against the US, this time attacking the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon rather than a couple of embassies and a US Naval
vessel.
We knew that Obama was willing to play soft with the Russians. However,
this latest breach of national security demonstrates he is more than
just willing to play soft; he is willing to let other countries use
the US as a punching bag and a tackle dummy.
Yes, our federal government needs to cut out wasteful spending. They
need to trim back on the unnecessary bureaucratic offices. They need to
quit spending money in areas in which the federal government has no
authority nor responsibility to waste our tax money. They need to stop
spending money taking care of criminals who illegally entered our
country. They need to stop throwing money to those who would rather live
off of the fruits of others' labors. The last place the government
needs to cut spending is in the area of national defense.
Our
intelligence personnel are our first line of defense, since they are the
ones looking for any possible threats. Pearl Harbor taught us that we
cannot fight a threat we do not know to be there. (In the case of Pearl
Harbor, it was the threat nobody high in FDR's administration would
listen to the intelligence personnel who detected the pending attack).
These latest incursions and Obama's lack of response is demonstrative of
the fact he wants the US militarily weak and ripe for attack by our
enemies. Like Jimmy Carter did as a Naval Officer, Obama is running our
Naval capabilities to ground. However, he is also grounding our Air
Force and arming our Army and Marines with
Nerf Reactor Ball Blasters.
This leaves me, a former intelligence analyst, with one question to my
compatriots still in the fight: Who is jumping up in down in their SCIF
right now screaming "I Told You So!"? I want to buy you a beer.
Original Article on Mental Aikido
