$850 billion spent per year by DoD - its not so much a “defense” scheme, so much as it is a long-standing, institutionalized, bloated, crony-capitalist, political scheme and DC jobs program
That part is true. Trump tried to do something about that. One of the reasons he made so many enemies.
If you really want to be disappointed find out how much of that is pensions.
Which really got goosed up by Cheney and the WOT. The DC Beltway is one big ring road of defense contractors vying with defense contractors to peddle the best powerpoint slide deck for the latest defense scam. All those highrises in McClean are monument to our globalist war. And not a single thing of use is manufactured in any of that sprawling mess except crossed palms and lined pockets.