Former Defense Secretary Gates reveals the biggest weakness of America's military might
"The United States of America is the most powerful nation on Earth. Period," President Obama said in his eighth and final State of the Union address.
"Our troops are the finest fighting force in the history of the world. No nation dares to attack us or our allies because they know that's the path to ruin."
Sequestration.
Sequestration is immediate and indiscriminate budget cuts across-the-board that implement every portion of the military equally.
Firstly, it increases uncertainty within the military.
"I think a big part of the problem is the lack of predictability in terms of the resources that the military is going to have," Gates told Business Insider.
The second major problem of sequestration is that the process does not take into account the quality of what is being defunded.