The same site you reference, Heritage, gives more data that demonstrates that Sequestration is gutting the military. Moreover, the percent increase you cite lumps the cost of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that included OCO funding that lumped that into the general Defense budget.
Even if we zeroed out Defense spending altogehter, we are screwed financially because of Entitlement spending (which is not being addressed by either party because they are cowards).
We were attacked after 911 - did you forget that? Yet, the percentage of our military spending (especially in % of GDP) was a historically low increase for war. We did this on the cheap by historial comparisons, and very few Americans paid the price of these wars in terms of blood, sweat, and sacrifice.
Less than 1% of Amerians serve in the military. Less than 7% have every served - yet is the military budget that is being used as an ATM machine for this nation.
The simple fact is that the military is 17% of the Federal budget, and must "pay for" 50% of all Sequestration cuts.
Furthermore, Sequestration does NOTHING to deal with our exploding Entitlements, which are the real cause of our debt and deficits. Neither party wants to deal with Entitlements, yet they are breaking the back of this nation and sapping our national will.
As I said before the problem is with how the administration is allocating the funds it has now, and the answer isn't to give the turd in the white house more money, but rather pressure him and his accomplices to change the allocation or cut welfare. we have 49,000,000 people (I don't say citizens, because I suspect many of them are not) on food stamps 0 and his acomplices extended unemployment to 99 weeks. These are two great incentives for peopel to get off their asses and work aren't they?
Sorry if the military is bearing the brunt of the cuts, but there are two easy answers to that. First don't send our military into every conflict that doesn't affect us at all - like Syria. both sides hate us. Who cares if they kill each other? Second put pressure on the government to allocate budget cuts someone else. It happened in '94 and in the late 90's the welafre roles decreased. Bus to some extent and 0 to a much greater extent opened up the flood gates to parasites. We CAN'T keep increasing spending, that will destroy our country more surely than any number of unwashed primatives with AK-74s.
We were attacked after 911 - did you forget thatI reiterate that there is a far greater danger to our way of life and to what this country stands for from the turd in the white house and his accomplices in kongress and the federal bureaucracy than any number of hate filled (fill in your favorate pejorative) terrorists. 9/11 killed about 2000. 0bamacare will kill millions and impoverish millions also. The fact is we don't need as many active duty personnel IF WE DON'T GO DIVING INTO EVERY CONFLICT IN EVERY THIRD WORLD SH!THOLE. We have no business in Syria. This is directly under the control of 0 and his gang. Giving him more money isn't the answer.