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"The commission argued that despite a $716 billion American defense budget this year, which is four times the size of China’s and more than 10 times that of Russia, the effort to reshape the U.S. defense establishment to counter current threats is under-resourced. It recommended that Congress lift budget caps on defense spending in the next two years that in the past have hobbled the military’s ability to plan for the long term."
- War industry lobbyists gotta make that scratch.mg33
- Lol.PhanLo
- The army itself has asked to stop building tanks, but it's a jobs programs for the red states so nothing is ever going away.zarkonite
- All that money is spent inside the US, so it's a big economic boon and an easy way to buy votes.zarkonite
- from weaponry to livingry not so much.neverscared