Pentagon Should Worry About More Than Pirates

Conn Carroll / April 15, 2009

Selling his defense budget cuts at the Air Force War College today, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says, according to the AP, “the pirate drama over the last week helps prove his point about why the Pentagon should change its weapon-buying habits.”

No one is more joyful about the Navy Seals rescue of Captain Richard Phillips then the Heritage family. But the threats our nation faces extends a bit beyond three pirates in the Gulf of Aiden.

If China takes down our satellite system sometime in the future, will Gates shoot at them with a sniper rifle? (more…)