US MILITARY COSTS One of my ancestors was responsible for auditing the ‘military

US MILITARY COSTS
One of my ancestors was responsible for auditing the ‘military industrial complex’ for Eisenhower. His assessment was that it was over stated. And present investigations find plenty of folly but generally, no it’s what it’s intended to be: innovation, production, and preservation of capacity – including as a jobs program. Because we cannot scale up and down skills on demand. We have relied too much in private industry which has to manage risk by making the govt pay for lack of stability. China, Russia, And Israel do a better job. With Israel the example we should follow, but with a mixed economy like the chinese and russian.
Most military cost in the USA is because we actually pay soldiers. And from my estimates the recruiting problem is due largely to continuing to underpay them given the technical needs of the jobs. In other words, virtually ethnonationalizing the military through just paying better would serve us well.

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