Evil Dictators Happyland wrote:The US spends more on the military than the next seven countries combined. Whether or not we need more military power is irrelevant, the fact is that if throwing more money at the problem could solve it, we would have solved it by now. But as it stands, spending billions of dollars on blowing up terrorists has managed to do very little to remove the terrorists, so maybe we should consider alternative means.
Terrorists are not the real threat. And terrorism does require military responses, but not only military responses. Our failure to focus on stable governance and economic improvement is a failure, but still we need to spend to replace our vast amounts of obsolete equipment.
Pretty much all our major equipment and platforms are from the 80s or even the 50s and early 60s.
And again looking at spending alone in absence of things like wage disparities is a mistake.
If China paid their soldiers a decent wage compared to ours their military spending would have to quadruple or more.