re: Budget Cuts Leave 101st Airborne Crippled

While it is true that the DoD wastes a lot of money (which needs to be addressed ASAP) I do have an issue with this graph.

The difference between the U.S. and all those other countries is how spread out all of our resources are. We have interests all across the globe and I personally believe we should be the one's in charge of protecting those interests. So I do believe we need to spend a disproportionate amount on defense.

So, if for some reason we got into a war with China and they tried to interfere with the shipping lanes they could bring a lot of resources to bear in that particular area. So even if we spend more doesn't necessarily we could defeat a large enemy on their home turf given how thinned out we are.

And to reiterate, I agree about the waste. The DoD did their own study of wasteful spending and then tried to cover up the results because there was so much waste they were worried about getting hit with budget cuts.