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Originally Posted by Schroeder
Have you had a look at the financial situation of the US recently? Where do you take the money from to increase the size of the military?
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My words. Even the current level of military spending is only possible by foreign money going into the US. Just image the Chinese would stop cpntinuing to buy (nowadays relatively worthless) treasury bonds! As some critic pointedly remarked - ironically it is the chinese (who opposed the Iraq war) that are financing the war. I think a shift in force compisition would be eneded, to get a higher manpower, away from cost-intensive hightech and electrinics and platforms, towards more basic infantry. But tell that the industrial-military complex - they will run amok.