© Mike Segar / ReutersRepublican presidential nominee Donald Trump
The Republican presidential hopeful is going to announce his military plan in a speech on Wednesday, according to a campaign senior official, who briefed the media on the eve of the event.
Trump would be proposing a "major investment" in the US military, which he has repeatedly referred as a "disaster" in his statements.
"I will ask Congress to eliminate the sequester and immediately re-invest in our military," Trump said in a speech at a rally in Greenville, North Carolina earlier on Tuesday.
However, his campaign would not say how Trump plans to bypass what is known as the Budget Control Act of 2011, Bloomberg reported. The provision, adopted over five year ago, set limits on defense spending up until the fiscal year for 2021. It also imposed major sequestration cuts for the Department of Defense, which according to the Center of Strategies and International Studies (CSIS), would total roughly $1 billion over 10 years.
At the Pentagon, such "across-the-board" budget cuts are seen as potentially threatening to national security.
Still, America's defense spending places it at the forefront of the list of the world's most militarized states, with a budget equal to that of the next 10 states combined.
According to Reuters, Trump wants to allocate funds for upgrading the US military with new ships, planes and submarines; to bolster missile defense systems and to improve combat troops training.
"Our active-duty armed forces have shrunk from 2 million in 1991 to about 1.3 million today," Trump said in a speech in April. "The Navy has shrunk from over 500 ships to 272 ships during this same period of time. The Air Force is about one-third smaller than 1991. Pilots flying B-52s in combat missions today. These planes are older than virtually everybody in this room."
In his campaign video posted on YouTube in January, Trump was vowing to "make our Military so big, powerful and strong that nobody - absolutely nobody - will mess with us."
Yet, he has also pleaded to make the US army "so strong" again without increasing the military budget, because he is going to "look for savings and spend our money wisely."
Also on Wednesday, Trump plans to criticize his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, for "military adventurism" in regard to her mishandling of Libya and the Middle East as secretary of state, Reuters reported.
We haven't had any military drawdown, except of course, here at home in America. Just like our disassembly of the economy here at home in America. Its all overseas now.
Didn't know your military was overseas? Yes, it is, Thanks to the Bush Bunch.
We have 1,000 overseas US military bases overseas. They are permanent features on the landscape. Their funding is in the billions of dollars primarily administered by secret Congressional action and by the Bush Buddies. Their resupply comes from Bush Bonanza formerly known as private contractors operating in foreign countries. They are the sole providers to the American overseas bases. We may soon build our arms and ammunition plants overseas to keep the bases supplied without having to employ any actual Americans in defending America.
While you may think that the overseas US bases are actual units that go to action in our non-declared war zones, they aren't. I like to think of them as the prime reserve of American health and low stress. If a military action is declared by the US President, formerly an action by Congress, the troops are collected locally in our land of America and shipped to the war zone almost never contaminating the reserve health groups, known as the overseas US bases.
The most obvious outcome of this massive out-farming of the US military is the creation and maintenance of reasons to be there. As we claim to be an established democracy, the protection of and creation by our US military is the media reported reason to be there altho strangely more drugs are grown in Afghanistan, more rebels are supplied with arms, more austerity is demanded by global bankers, more countries can't manage their economic and government decisions without our help.
Strangely, the global protection of democracy has resulted in more wars and more destruction of major cites decimating the human population.
A site on youtube (newearth) finds a global high level civilization in the not so distant past destroyed by our sun, Sol, flaring. Might we be entering a period of cyclic destruction by our high energy sun? In our historical past humans dreaded the appearance of comets knowing new diseases and new conditions accompanied them. It is the same today. .