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222 • Understand, Then Contain America’s Out-of-Control Defense BudgetFigure 1. Post-World War II DOD Spending, Constant 2008 Dollars$800700600n DOD Budget (BN$)Cold War Average5004003002001000DOD Budget 1947-2008‘47 ‘51 ‘55 ‘59 ‘63 ‘67 ‘71 ‘75 ‘79 ‘83 ‘87 ‘91 ‘95 ‘99 ‘03 ‘07Source: National Defense Budget Estimates for the 2008 Budget (“Greenbook”), Departmentof Defense.estimate one uses, the United States spends slightly less than, or significantly morethan, the rest of the world combined. See Figure 2 below.The figures above show not just America’s enemies or potential enemies, but theentire rest of the world. In the 19th century, Great Britain adopted a standard toassure security for its navy – a navy that dominated all others: to possess as manycapital ships as the next two most powerful navies combined, whether friend or foe.America has gone well beyond this measure; we have adopted not a “Two Power”standard, instead we have adopted a standard that approaches all 191 other membersof the United Nations.Spending amounts that approximate the combined budgets of just so-called threatnations would mean virtual evisceration of the Department of Defense budget. Thedefense budgets of the remaining “Rogue States” (Iran and North Korea) are tiny in comparison.Adding Cuba to the mix, adds virtually nothing. Even if we were to considersignificant defense spenders like Russia and China to be enemy-, or potential-enemystates, the grand total comes to less than one-third of the current DOD budget.As Col. Chester Richards pointed out in Chapter Two – and others elsewhere – theUnited States and China are major trading partners, and the U.S. and Russia, whilecompetitive on various international issues, have a relationship nothing like the ColdWar posture we had with the Soviet Union. In addition, 65 years of post-World War IIhistory have shown that nuclear powers – like the United States, Russia and China – goto great lengths to avoid direct military confrontations. It would require leadership ofincomprehensible incompetence or virtual clinical lunacy to permit war among nuclearpowers. Many use the possible threat of Russia and China to justify adding programs
Winslow T. Wheeler • 223Figure 2. United States Defense Spending Compared to Worldwide Military Expenditures$9008007006005004003002001000762 736IISS 2008 SIPRI 2008 CIA 2007 National Defense2008 (request)382693Sources: International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance for 2008; StockholmInternational Peace and Research Institute, Yearbook for 2008; Central Intelligence Agency, TheWorld Factbook, 2007.Figure 3. U.S. Defense Spending Compared to “Rogue” & Other Non-Allied States$800700n Total defense spending per IISS 20086936005004003002001000122701.6 7.1 5205.7ChinaRussia Cuba Iran N. Korea All tothe leftU.S.2008Source: International Institute for Strategic Studies, “The Military Balance, 2008.”to the defense budget, but it is ludicrous to think these two nations, and any otherpossible foes, such as Iran and North Korea, justify a defense budget more than threetimes the size of what all these countries spend on defense collectively.Figure 3 above shows the U.S. defense budget in relation to these others.
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