not one mention of Zumwalt or LCS in this article<p>you cannot talk about (re)building the military without discussing the decades and billions wasted pursuing pipe dreams and failed ideas<p>right now we are building an LCS that will be scrapped within a year of it being put to sea...we still have LCSs that even haven't had their keels laid...which will meet the same fate! say it out loud: "we don't want the LCS and will scrap them...can you build us eight more please?"<p>do you think the Chinese Navy is ordering boats they don't want?<p>and try spending some money on people, and I don't just mean better soldier pay...look at the pathetic physical condition of today's soldiers...what % of the armed forces are medically obese? go watch random military videos on youtube and see the guts hanging over the belts...its just pathetic