Defense Budget Priorities: Opting for American Decline

From The Foundry:

Last week North Korea successfully launched an Unha-3 rocket, thereby demonstrating an alarming capability to target U.S. territory with ballistic missiles. China is rapidlyexpanding its fleets and arsenals in an unprecedented military build-up, while intimidating other countries in East Asia—including U.S. allies. The Middle East is a conflagration of instability.

Meanwhile, the Obama Administration and Congress have put U.S. defense spending on track to pre-World War II levels—a time when America was not a superpower and not leader of the “free world.”

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