Miriam Pemberton and Lawrence Korb at Foreign Policy in Focus have a rather simple idea with regards to the fiscal side of our defense budget. Do not call it a 'defense' budget; it's really a security budget that should look at our offensive (mainly the military), defensive (homeland security) and prevention (primarily international affairs) efforts as a unit.
It is their contention that we spend too much money on defense as compared to the other components of our security; their estimate is 8 to 1 in favor of defense. In their opinion we could and should abandon military programs that no longer are relevant to the threats of today and tomorrow and put that money into defensive and prevention efforts. An obvious example: kill the missile defense system and put the money into port security.
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