A well reasoned attack on military spending, but it is no better done than the right wing attacks on social spending. DoD budgets are one of the most convoluted and misleading items in the goverment. We built the interstate highway system as a national defense network, at one time we funded nearly 50 % of all R&D at universities with DoD dollars, we did much of the R&D for NASA with DoD dollars, and we established and maintain the GPS system with DoD dollars. That is not ot say ... More »

Good facts, but I was disappointed Ross didn't draw his conclusion more clearly. Though clearly insane, why do we continue to spend all this money on the Navy? On other armaments we don't need?

The hard hitting essay looks at the world military dictatorship that seems to be US policy, and is continuing to grow under Obama.

The author has valid points and backs them up (to some extent) but he would be more convincing if he took specific arguments for weapons systems, manpower, bases, etc. and attempted to refute those specific arguments of the need for an individual thing.

Very fine encapsulation of stunning collective idiocy of the US public in supporting an insane level of "defense" spending matching the rest of the world combined.