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In reply to the discussion: Dick Cheney Tells CBS: Obama Wants To Do Serious Damage To Military [View all]adieu
(1,009 posts)could do to the military, I don't think it's enough.
What's needed is for the military to run on a budget of $220 billion/year. In order for that to happen, it has to shed 66% of its current expenditures, more or less. Kill all future military appropriations, close all foreign bases, close many bases in the country. Force more flag officers to retire, with a special clause that they cannot serve or work with any entity associated with the MIC (or threaten a loss of pension or something like that).
Trim, trim, trim. If there is ever a place for austerity, it would be in the military.
The cost of maintaining a military has brought down all great nations at one point or another. The nations of today realize that a bare-bones military will make the country far more stable.