Great work! I also did a graph of the rate of change of the national debt and every single war the US has gotten into (going back to the war of 1812), the rate of change of the national debt has skyrocketed. Every single time. Why is that when annually we spend more than the next 5-6 countries combined? It makes us look dumbfounded when a war starts that we aren’t ready. You would think with the largest military expenditure in the history of the world, we would be better prepared for war. We need leaders that will stand up to Lockheed Martin, Boeing and the other defense contractors that have been price gouging the American people for over a century.
Great work! I also did a graph of the rate of change of the national debt and every single war the US has gotten into (going back to the war of 1812), the rate of change of the national debt has skyrocketed. Every single time. Why is that when annually we spend more than the next 5-6 countries combined? It makes us look dumbfounded when a war starts that we aren’t ready. You would think with the largest military expenditure in the history of the world, we would be better prepared for war. We need leaders that will stand up to Lockheed Martin, Boeing and the other defense contractors that have been price gouging the American people for over a century.
For any war, the operative questions are,
who benefits from this war?
what does mission accomplished look like?
what are the mission objectives?
what is the exit strategy?
Indeed. My sense is that we tend to contrate on the alleged rational or urgent need...and almost none of these others questions.