Given our economic crisis, the estimated trillion dollars we spend each year on the military and its weaponry is simply unsustainable. Even if present fiscal constraints no longer existed, we would still have misspent too much of our tax revenues on too few, overly expensive, overly complex weapons systems that leave us ill-prepared to defend the country in a real military emergency. We face a double crisis at the Pentagon: we can no longer afford the pretense of being the Earth’s sole superpower, and we cannot afford to perpetuate a system in which the military-industrial complex makes its fortune off inferior, poorly designed weapons. FULL ARTICLE
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Chalmers Johnson always has a great perspective on issues of empire and militarism. No doubt that the pentagon – and possibly the entire us government – is little more than a house of cards. The massive spending of money the don’t have can’t last forever.
Check out this short video clip too: Oil, Blowback and War
good article..but for myself,the pentegon needs to increase the budget of the Coast Guard as they are and have been for ages,the first line of defence on the USA’s coastal borders. So take ALL of the “pork” from the USAF, Army & Navy and give it the Coastguard & USMC…I am very sure those 2 step children of the pentegon will be better stewards of what they would be given.
The only problem with increasing any kind of military budgets is that the federal government is BROKE! They have to borrow billions, if not trillions, just to stay afloat.
Without massive cuts around the board, any increases will just add to the disaster that’s coming.
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