Because of the very nature of sequestration, what you would have is automatic percentage cuts to everything, without regard to strategy, without regard to importance, without regard to any sort of setting priorities.
Mabus explains how sequestration would indiscriminately cut defense budgets.
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It`s huge. It`s huge symbolically as you pointed out. This was the ship that threatened the Ukrainians on Snake Island and they told them to go do something you can`t say on TV.
DOD absolutely has to take the lead. They are the largest users of fossil fuels on Earth.
It is important because it makes us better warfighters. It is important because it takes fuel away as a weapon to be used against us.
You will not lose this war. That is deep. There is a lot of layers. And we are all blessed.