Putin says, "Jump!", and opiss-willy meekly asks, "How high?"

Obama would never make a stand on behalf of others. I don't think he'd stand up for himself. Sleep well, America.

I have the whole war worked out. I'll share it with you sometime soon.

Military logic dictates that the highest probable target of Russia, after Ukraine is taken or sullied to Putin's satisfaction, is Finland. I came to this conclusion @ 3 weeks ago. Then, I was watching a video on WW II and the German retreat from Ukraine in 1943. The Germans were expecting the next move to be Belarus, and GD if it wasn't in Finland.

All this is predicated on: we take a stand in Europe. Otherwise, it will all be the way Slim Pickens lays it out in Dr Strangelove.

Enjoy your new socialism, America.

The greatest military ever deployed, and no leader. No mission.

We are in a lot of trouble. And our kids will go first.

The recording of 'We'll Meet Again' used in Dr. Strangelove was made by Dame Vera Lynn, the British 'Sweetheart of the Forces' in WW II. Dame Vera is alive, well, and she hopes to release another album this year.

"Planned for a year"? Yes. As someone who used to be involved in planning such things (though not in the USAF, but all services do them) I can tell you this kind of exercise can't be simply thrown together because last month's headlines were disturbing.

All these aircraft have operational missions that have to be covered while they are on the exercise. Aircraft also rotate continually in and out of various levels of maintenance up to basically factory rebuild, and that has to be accounted for.

Then there is the matter of paying for it. Money comes from Congress and Congress passes a budget for defense once per year (when it passes a budget at all). So that has to be programmed into the USAF's budget in advance of the exercise year.

(Actually, the funding is channeled through US Strategic Command but the process is the same.)

Yes, it is possible to rob other parts of the budget to pay for such exercises if it is not already funded, but that has its own problems.

Hey, I'm in the blast zone. Say a prayer for me when the time comes. :-)

I do not think even one General or Admiral has resigned in protest over Obama's policies. There is no more politically-correct organization on the Earth like The Pentagon.

I do not think even one General or Admiral has resigned in protest over Obama's policies

That may be because the ones who have were forced out instead. It worked in Turkey, and almost succeeded in Egypt.

For a flag-rank officer to resign in protest would be seen, correctly, as a political act. The apoliticism of the US military is something that we must preserve at all costs.

However, I am compelled to agree with Don Rodrigo here. Obama and allies have been politicizing the military, especially the flag ranks, as fast as they can. It has been abundantly clear for a long time that one-star officers who want to see two, and especially two-stars who want to see more, will be promoted on the basis of their political reliability in adopting and enforcing the administration's leftist, P.C., soft socialism.

When Eisenhower was president, he told a reporter that it was easy to end the Pentagon's protests over budget cuts and cut the defense budget significantly. "You tell those generals that Ike has another star for any one of them who cuts at least ten percent out of next year's budget request, and you'll see how much money we don't need to spend after all." Quote's not exact, but close.

Closing note. Gen. Harold K. Johnson was the Chief of Staff, Army, from 1964 - 1968. He wrote in later years, long after retirement, that his greatest regret was not resigning in protest over LBJ's horrid handling of the Vietnam war and associated policies.

@Sensing, and Gen Johnson's regrets - "long after retirement". That falls into the same category as Robert McNamara and his memoirs. That gives them something to talk about while playing Canasta in their own little circle of Hell.