[SkyPilot]

I already did. $600B is enough.

Oh really? What did you base that on? What is the correct force structure with that figure? Should the Army decrease down to 420,000? Should be go down to 11 carriers, or even 8? Or less?

Your $600B figure includes the OCO as well above the baseline. Should that go up, or down? How much? Is that figure just for this Fiscal Year, or is it through Sequestration for the next 9 years? What if world fuel prices go up? How does that affect the O&M costs? What if the Pentagon has to shift some fighters to the Baltics this week as the White House wants. How much does that cost in total, including the air refueling package?

None of that really matters to you: it is just "enough" because you are pissed off and arrogant. I get that.

I know you vastly dislike charts and graphs (all that "misleading don'tchaknow), but here is one to ponder with my answer of 5% GDP being a proper approach to our defense posture:

While you are at it, you might want to read this:

The Biggest Threat to the Pentagon’s Budget Is Entitlement Spending

[RFEngineer]

“because you are pissed off and arrogant.”

LOL....yes, I arrogantly want to keep my own money as much as is possible, just like the Constitution arrogantly states I should be able to.

I want to do it by reducing government dramatically.

Sure it’s not likely but arrogant? Spoken like a true government elitist worried about his budget.

[RFEngineer]

“I know you vastly dislike charts and graphs (all that “misleading don’tchaknow), but here is one to ponder with my answer of 5% GDP being a proper approach to our defense posture:”

Now plot absolute DoD budgets over the same timeline. Ah! it looks different!

That’s why you don’t use percentages on any meaningful chart.