The Pentagon Budget Is Now $852B; Should It Be Cut?

Yes, cut significantly… by 60-70%

Redirected I think would be a better route forward.

Should be cut 5% every year until they can pass an audit

they've failed their last 7 audits i guarantee at least 200 billion is going up in smoke every year.

Military is a use it or lose it budget. Equipment, supply and training only gets more expensive. I personally don’t like how many govt contractors there are these days and most of them could be cut. There is so much non military govt programs that should be cut first.

It needs to be reformed. No more Cost Plus conracts. Fire or reassign all the people in defense procurement who are associated with defense contractors. Have everyone in defense procurement clean out their portfolio of defense related stocks apart from those held in well diversified index funds. Have anyone in a government procurement role file a short financial disclosure document annually when they file their taxes. Folks making 150K a year, who suddently fall into 500K in assests in one year better be able to explain how that money got there. End all lobbying by the defense industry. Seek competition from other countries - as the Navy did when they purchased the latest frigates from Italy. Build drone vs manned systems. .

The military budget should be cut by the exact amount the Pentagon cannot account for in their audits over the past seven years. That should shed some light on a lot of things.

Let DOGE walk through there. They'll cut 50% of the redundant bullshite immediately. Then restructure it to be efficient. Let's go to work.

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The Pentagon Budget Is Now $852B; Should It Be Cut?

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Sigh.

You do know military retirement pay, dependent medical care and other non-military projects come from the DoD budget, right?

It's not all spent on bombs, missiles, guns, tanks, planes and ships.