Army basic training taught us that the U.S. is almost un-attackable.
(trust me, there's a valuable lesson to be learned here vs our blank-check MIC spending)
One of the most valuable lessons I've ever learned in life is that our country, due to its geographic isolation, is nearly impossible to attack on a full scale invasion.
Our east and west borders are protected by thousands of miles of unforgiving oceans. It would be almost impossible to "sail" a navy across either ocean to attack, defeat, and capture the U.S.
To land an army, to capture our seas and seaports, to invade and conquer the US into submission and surrender would require a world-wide effort vs the U.S.
In other words, good luck with that.
There are 3 basic options to attack the U.S.
Staging an army in Mexico or Canada, in which we could simply bomb staging points to smithereens...
Missiles.. Guess what, we have missiles too. The threat of mutual destruction means only an imbecile would shoot a missile at the U.S.
Cyber warfare.. again, we have hackers too.
Since 1980 and Ray-gun, we have been lied to on a criminal level. We've been force-fed the same old bullshit that we need to spend our nation's treasure into bankrupting levels to fund our national "defense".
9/11 happened because Bush let it happen. We could've stopped that attack before it happened but Bush needed his war to prop up his failing presidency.
Show me a military worthy of attacking the U.S. and defeating us on our own soil and I'll laugh in anyone's face.
This lesson, taught to me by my beloved drill sergeants in basic training still resonates today, perhaps louder than ever.
It's beyond time to expose the profit-driven lies barfed out by the MIC, Raytheon, Northrup-Grumman etc.
All we need is..
a downsized, high-tech military, WITHIN OUR OWN BORDERS that monitors our 4 borders. We don't need a military spread across the globe that can conquer the planet 10 times over while also bankrupting our nation and lining the pockets of MIC vultures.
The MIC is criminal political corruption defined.
NEVER let anyone tell you that we need to spend ourselves into bankruptcy to fund a world-dominating military force that has proven unsustainable.
Nature has provided our continent with more defense measures that any military weapon ever could. Isolation.
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excellent student. 
This is the last ten years:
In the 1960ies the cost was getting close to 10 percent of GDP. Since the Cold War it fell to between 3 and 5. No reason not to let it drop further - what about reaching down for that two percent limit NATO is being harassed about?
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?end=2019&locations=US&start=1960&view=chart
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"The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army, also bearing responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798, and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force on September 18, 1947."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War#:~:text=The%20War%20Department%20existed%20from,Department%20of%20Defense%20in%201949.
USA became the empire they were supposed to be getting away from - "lost the ball" so to speak.
USA's ventures around the globe since WW2 were/are destruction/domination - not protection imo.
POTUS haven't run the country for ages - that's the MIC and Wall Street/Oligarchs/Elite/big pharma/oil etc - yeah - $$$$ . . . . that's what running(ruining) the country right now. . .
(sigh)
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