90% for offense

In most situations where one is in a fight, you consider your offense and your defense. When you become more mature, you consider ways to prevent fights. Is there a reason why our country cannot act as mature adult?

The security budget of the United States should be made up of these three parts - offense (the military), defense (Homeland Security) and prevention (diplomacy). We currently spend 90% of our security budget on offense. a lot of it on exotic weapons systems for which,"GAO's reviews of weapons over three decades have found consistent cost increases, schedule delays, and performance shortfalls." Yet, we continue to propose these budget-breaking systems with little regard to the need for defense and prevention.

Lawrence Korb and Miriam Pemberton have once more produced a Unified Security Budget that challenges the conventional Pentagon budget process and asks Congress to look at all three components of our security - offense, defense and prevention.

Maybe some year this will happen.