Our Dangerously Reduced Military

Over the past several decades, the size of the U.S. military has been slashed in size.  The Navy has been reduced from 600 ships to 288.  The Air Force has shrunk from 37 to 20 tactical air wings.  The Army has been reduced from 18 regiments to 10.   Our weaponry dates, in varying degrees, from the 1950's to the 1980's. We have failed to deploy an anti-ballistic missile system. All this occurs as China dramatically increases the size and technology of its armed forces, as Russia rearms, and as Iran threatens nuclear war.  This national suicide must stop.