Reply #12: No... there's plenty more

[FBaggins]

just not as much as some would claim.

Just as with the "how much welfare is there" question in the OP, it all depends on how you define your terms.

For instance... if you believe that we wouldn't ever have a deficit if it weren't for all the wars the military industrial complex has created, then how would you score all of that interest on the national debt? Why isn't that military?

What about the portion of Social Security that is paid to military retirees? Much of their SS tax over the years was paid out of military salaries and the DOD budget. Isn't that really military spending? There are lots of other examples that cause some to claim that military spending is really more than half of the budget.