Jack Kingston: “The third party of our military strategy, along with quality of life and readiness, is modernization, keeping up with…”

“The third party of our military strategy, along with quality of life and readiness, is modernization, keeping up with the technology. If we just look at our own stereo systems and automobiles, we can see the technology changing tremendously from one year to the next. One can imagine what the technology is for a tank, for an airplane, for an aircraft carrier, for missiles and so forth. The things that we can do for safety, defense, for weapons, is tremendous. We are taking a huge risk if we do not. I was reading many years ago and so I cannot quote this exactly accurately but it was in Churchill's ``History of the English-Speaking People'' and he talked about the long bow, and in the long history of war with each other the French and the British, one king had the long bow, the arrow that would shoot the farthest distance. Unfortunately, I do not remember but I think it was the British, and the British were able to defeat the French for about 20 or 30 consistent years because they had this great weapon. As soon as the French invented it, then the pendulum swung the other direction. It is no different today. Ancient Rome, or whoever had the catapult first, they were at an advantage and today nothing has changed.”