The U.S. military budget is still absurd.
An old post of mine from Kuro5hin.Org, dated “Tue Jan 23rd, 2001 at 10:11:31 AM EST”.
TomPaine.Com and Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities (this link requires JavaScript) have a recent analysis of American military spending by Dr. Lawrence Korb.
According to TomPaine’s introduction:
Lawrence Korb is Director of Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Korb served as Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration.
What makes his reports interesting, then, is that they come down so heavily on the decision that the American military budget is far out of reasonable scale. It would seem reasonable to expect a former Reagen Defense official to side with the “big military” priorities the country has followed consistently, even after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The fact that he does not, of course, explains why it’s being published at TomPaine.Com and BLfSP.
The summary can be found on TomPaine.Com and Korb’s complete text can be found here on BLfSP.
