Yes, and the reality is that it's maybe not misinterpreted; we just didn't spend for 20-plus years. Our capability is so low that our systems.... To take the CF-18s as an example, it's basically going to come up to 50 years by the time they're replaced. It takes inordinate amounts of personnel and resources, all of those sorts of components, to keep them going.
If you look at every single capability set of our forces, that's the reality, except for maybe the army. Even the transport fleets are starting to see the age and wear of really heavy deployments. Compared to our allies, we utilize what we have at a much higher tempo, at a much higher rate, than they do. We deploy expeditionary...and as a result, we run them ragged, and it requires more resources and more capability to keep them going.
