US Military spending

Trump signs new defense budget that envisages sanctions against Russia The defense budget stands at $738 billion, which is 3.1% more than in the 2019...

Pillar one supporting that edifice: ideology. As long as most Americans accept the notion that it is the God-given mission and right of the United States to go anywhere on the planet and do more or less anything it cares to do with its military, you won’t see Pentagon spending brought under real control. Think of this as the military corollary to American exceptionalism—or just call it the doctrine of armed exceptionalism, if you will.