That's true but there are some targets that don't need to be occupied and held.KD5NRH wrote:They're still good to have as staging areas for infantry, etc. Bombers suck at occupying territory.74novaman wrote:Since we have the ability using carrier based fighters, US based bombers like the B2, etc to hit anywhere we need to within 24 hours, we can simply close up shop on most of our foreign bases.
I like your idea about leasing them back to the host country. If the host country won't go for that, they can be semi-mothballed and maintained by a skeleton crew.
We should also expect the other members of the UN security council to pony up equal resources, or we should cut back to match their average contribution, especially in a bad economy like now with a President who claimed he was against using the US military to meddle in foreign country's internal conflicts.