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Originally Posted by Resurrection
But if the United States isn't spending more money on their military than the next 11 countries combined, the terrorists win!!
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The funny thing is that the new conflicts with terrorist groups requires intelligence more than anything, which is much less expensive to implement than traditional warfare. There's almost no point to the giant military budget except to look big and tough to everyone else around the world.
The military industrial complex will have to slowly be reduced over time to the appropriate expenditure levels, otherwise it might single-handedly bankrupt America. You can't do it all at once for reasons that Corsi pointed out, but there's plenty of fat to cut right away.