1) Just about anyone who looks at military acquisition know that acquisition is broken. Things cost too much, take too long, and often don't do what they were supposed to do.
2) Fixing acqusitions would be good.
3) Spending less on the military is a desirable and achievable goal.
BUT
4) Politicians are likely cut right down to the bone on military spending. They will weaken the country and they will still not achieve truly signifiant savings.
5) Real budget cuts are absolutely required. And this will involve deep cuts on the entitlement side.
6) Politicians will not cut entitlements in a meaningful way.
it would be very interesting to show these numbers from 1960 thru today
maybe a bar chart, so the left can see how much has been spent in 50 years
i would also love to see a chart that shows US entitlement spending, in dollars, compared to all other countries, since they like comparing defense spending between countries.
even the most commie of socialist countries don’t spend anything like we do
It looks like total expenditures on that graph are about 25 trillion. It doesn't seem plausible to me that we only spent 750 billion on Iraq and only 250 billion on Afghanistan.
I only had time to look into this a little bit and it looks like these figures might be accurate if you don't count the interest on the borrowed money to pay for the wars or the additional costs for veteran care and benefits. If you do, the total cost for the wars ends up in the multiple trillions.
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