Short of deciding we suddenly don’t need a navy, there’s not as much space as one might think for cutting ‘fat’ from the budget. Even the Obama-era proposal for shrinking the budget still came out to 500 billion, and that was with cuts to the bone - and 10 years of inflation to adjust for.
What will happen to the US defense budget now that we know it’s unnecessary?
That was rhetorical by the way, I know it’s going to increase.
still necessary. russia isn’t the only potential adversary out there
Short of deciding we suddenly don’t need a navy, there’s not as much space as one might think for cutting ‘fat’ from the budget. Even the Obama-era proposal for shrinking the budget still came out to 500 billion, and that was with cuts to the bone - and 10 years of inflation to adjust for.