{"id":13468,"date":"2017-04-24T16:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T20:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexingtoninstitute.org\/?p=13468"},"modified":"2017-04-24T16:03:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T20:03:52","slug":"five-reasons-trump-wont-reverse-u-s-militarys-long-decline-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/five-reasons-trump-wont-reverse-u-s-militarys-long-decline-forbes\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Reasons Trump Won&#8217;t Reverse The U.S. Military&#8217;s Long Decline (From Forbes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump ran for the presidency\u00a0promising that he would rebuild America&#8217;s military.\u00a0 The joint force definitely needs renewal, but after 100 days in office, Trump doesn&#8217;t look like the leader who can accomplish it.\u00a0\u00a0For starters, the military has been in\u00a0gradual decline for a long time &#8212; roughly two decades &#8212;\u00a0and that isn&#8217;t likely to\u00a0be fully turned around\u00a0during Trump&#8217;s tenure.\u00a0 Second, the White House can&#8217;t deliver on\u00a0necessary increases in defense spending because it has failed to give Democrats an incentive to go along with removing spending caps in current law.\u00a0 Third, the\u00a0president has so many other priorities\u00a0that they are likely to\u00a0eclipse his defense commitments.\u00a0 Fourth, neither major political party has exhibited much enthusiasm for military spending increases if they require making sacrifices in other areas.\u00a0 Fifth, current threats are so diverse and confusing that it is\u00a0hard to build a consensus on how much money the military needs, and to what ends.\u00a0 I have written a commentary for Forbes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lorenthompson\/2017\/04\/24\/five-reasons-trump-wont-reverse-the-u-s-militarys-long-decline\/#5b7f6397280c\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump ran for the presidency\u00a0promising that he would rebuild America&#8217;s military.\u00a0 The joint force definitely needs renewal, but after 100 days in office, Trump doesn&#8217;t look like the leader who can accomplish it.\u00a0\u00a0For starters, the military has been in\u00a0gradual decline for a long time &#8212; roughly two decades &#8212;\u00a0and that isn&#8217;t likely to\u00a0be fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Five Reasons Trump Won&#039;t Reverse The U.S. Military&#039;s Long Decline (From Forbes) - Lexington Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/five-reasons-trump-wont-reverse-u-s-militarys-long-decline-forbes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Five Reasons Trump Won&#039;t Reverse The U.S. Military&#039;s Long Decline (From Forbes) - Lexington Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Donald Trump ran for the presidency\u00a0promising that he would rebuild America&#8217;s military.\u00a0 The joint force definitely needs renewal, but after 100 days in office, Trump doesn&#8217;t look like the leader who can accomplish it.\u00a0\u00a0For starters, the military has been in\u00a0gradual decline for a long time &#8212; roughly two decades &#8212;\u00a0and that isn&#8217;t likely to\u00a0be fully [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/five-reasons-trump-wont-reverse-u-s-militarys-long-decline-forbes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lexington Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-04-24T20:03:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lex_share.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Loren B. 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