After adjusting for inflation, that’s only slightly less than last year’s proposal, but far higher than Cold War levels.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testifies before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense on May 11, 2023, in Washington, D.C.The White House released its budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 on March 11th, and the news was depressingly familiar:for the Pentagon and work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy.
And while congressional dysfunction is par for the course, in this instance it offers an opportunity to reevaluate what we’re spending all this money. The biggest driver of overspending is an unrealistic, self-indulgent, and — yes — militaristic national defense strategy.
Yet the war economy persists, even as the giant weapons corporations deliver less weaponry for more money in an ever more predictable fashion . This happens in part because the Pentagon regularly advances weapons programs before design and testing are even completed, a phenomenon known as “concurrent development.” Building systems before they’re fully tested means, of course, rushing them into production at the taxpayer’s expense before the bugs are out.
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