This graph is better than most because the data used are
expressed in inflation-adjusted dollars.
Lacking in requisite political direction and without the internal tools
(or will) to prioritize, DoD lumbers along, occasionally forced to
defend its total spending against other discretionary outlays, but
never really having to defend how it allocates what it spends
internally. Adding to the dysfunction is the sorry state of our
political system, in which one party's adult leadership (the Democrats)
is terrified to take on DoD for fear of looking weak, and the other
party's adult leadership (the Republicans) is unable to apply its flinty
aversion to government growth to national security apparatus of the
country.
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This is an interesting and useful chart, but unless there is some important information missing, that horizontal line can't be average spending. It looks more like a floor. At any rate, it strikingly illustrates the illusion of the "peace dividend."
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