A recent report by a panel of military experts warning that US military supremacy has eroded drastically has created “hysteria” in Washington to increase the Pentagon’s already massive budget, says an American political analyst.
The congressionally-chartered report released last month by the National Defense Strategy Commission said the US is likely unable to wage two wars at once and could even lose a war against China or Russia individually.
“This [report] will provoke hysteria here in Washington to spend even more money, even though it’s quite clear the problem is a lack of strategy and a lack of focus and that throwing more money at the problem won’t do any good at all,” said James Jatras, a former US Senate foreign policy analyst.
The report by the panel of 12 former national security officials and experts came after President Donald Trump said in October he would order his Cabinet to cut their fiscal 2020 budget…