The Stryker is a ‘deathtrap’ but you’re paying for it anyway
Despite cuts, the Army wants nearly $1B to upgrade a vehicle that literally put our soldiers in harm’s way. But it’s a big boon for the contractor.
Mark Perry is a senior analyst at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a widely published military and foreign affairs reporter. He is also an award-winning author of ten books, including The Pentagon’s Wars: The Military’s Undeclared War Against America’s Presidents (Basic Books, 2017); The Most Dangerous Man In America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur (Basic Books 2014); and Talking To Terrorists (Basic Books, 2010). The Boston Globe named his book on Gen. MacArthur the best non-fiction work of 2014.
Previously, Perry served as a senior foreign policy analyst and political director for Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, which founded the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which won the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. He is a graduate of Boston University.
Despite cuts, the Army wants nearly $1B to upgrade a vehicle that literally put our soldiers in harm’s way. But it’s a big boon for the contractor.
The president is going full speed ahead on beefing up the triad and expensive modernization — despite cries from his own party.
Their objections to budget cuts have nothing really to do with who is best positioned to fight, but losing out on the spoils.
Biden played this well, he said you can either have new weapons or you can have this old war. In the end, it wasn’t much of a contest.