Pentagon Measuring Military Effectiveness by Mark Thompson | @markthompson_dc | January 26, 2012 | + Tweet Pew The new Pew Research Center poll we cited the other day about the lack of public support for the war in Afghanistan is chock full of a lot of interesting data. But this table caught our eye briefly. It asked the public if cuts in military size would reduce its effectiveness. Battleland is no polling expert, but isn't that a bit like asking if reducing the size of your house would make it less effective? In the ongoing debate over military spending, the right believes more spending is better, while the left believes less spending is better. And, of course, Pew results show that automatic reaction. Oh, but to return to the house analogy, Man Belstaff Shirts, that's not really the question: what's more effective? Battleland doesn't want a castle on the shore if a beach cottage is what he truly desires. Battleland urges pollsters to stop asking questions like this Belstaff Icon Jackets, and get to the heart of the matter, with precision-guided queries more like this: Are we asking the military to do too much? If you think so, which missions should be given up, or accept a greater risk of achieving them? If you think they're doing too little, how much more money do you think it would take for the nation to have adequate defense? This is the debate we still haven't had. The budget crisis is about to force us to start throwing missions overboard (or, worse yet, keeping them and pretending we can accomplish them). Better to start the debate UGG Boots while there's still time to influence the outcome.
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