When he later became a Democrat politician John Kerry voted in the Senate against many weapon systems which later went on to be powerful jewels in Americas defence -
The armoured Bradley troop carrier. Perhaps he preferred US troops to patrol Baghdad in flimsier jeeps and Humvees?
Patriot missile - excellent medium-range SAM.
B-2 Spirit stealth bomber - worlds best strategic bomber.
Aegis SAM warship - worlds best defence vessel.
F/A-18 Hornet- Firstclass carrier fighter-bomber, flies into the enemies back yard.
The British equivalent of the Democrats is our Labour Party, for example when they first came to power 50 years ago the first thing they did was to cancel the highly-advanced TSR-2 fighter-bomber which was on the drawing boards, it could have penetrated to Moscow at low level, undetected.
And whenever they've been in power ever since, they've sold our armed forces short, keeping them under-funded and poorly-equipped right up to the present day; the Brit media is always full of stories about how our troops in Afgh are having to get by with a shortage of helo's, shortage of good vehicles, shortage of body armour etc etc..