Major Cuts in Military Spending Are the Best Way to Revive Our Democracy — W. J. Astore

I am not sure about the best way, but cutting military spending would be a step in the right direction for many reasons.

It [the military budget] would focus on actual defense, on preventing wars, and above all, on scaling down our gigantic military. It would involve cutting that budget roughly in half over the next few years and so forcing our generals and admirals to engage in that rarest of acts for them: making some tough choices. Maybe then they’d see the folly of spending $1.7 trillion on the next generation of world-ending weaponry, or maintaining all those military bases globally, or maybe even the blazing stupidity of backing China into a corner in the name of “deterrence.”...

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Major Cuts in Military Spending Are the Best Way to Revive Our Democracy
W. J. Astore, Lieutenant Colonel (USAF ret.), taught at the Air Force Academy, the Naval Postgraduate School, and currently at the Pennsylvania College of Technology