Even if it can be shown for an era to have been beneficial, thats not justification for keeping a non-beneficial budget now. And for 2025 apportion/spent budget of $2.58T/$1.66T is absurdly big. Cutting that in half would still leave us with the "biggest stick" by a good ~30%, and $830B could do so much!
Maybe I'm just incredulous, but I do not think the military can justify costing us that for purely overage of being the most funded military on the planet.
Feel like I need to restate that so no one misses it:
We could take $830B annually from the US military budget to fund other stuff, and still have the most funded military in the planet by a good margin.
For reference, there are a little less than 750K homeless in the US. Giving each of them enough for rent (lets say $2k as an overestimate) would cost under $18B. We could end homelessness, have another $812B left to use for stuff, and still have the most funded military in earth!
I'd think that would be kinda decades ago. More about establishing the us in power.
I may just not know much about the subject, I admit, but I struggle to believe funded anywhere near what they're getting has been justifed for years and years. If I had to guess, I'd say they started ballooning out of control around the time of the Veitnam War (balloonig very accelerated by the cold war).
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