Message from @pratel
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*Technically* you don't have to, but if you do the budget gets reallocated the next year permanently, so no one ever does.
It's a big part of why government programs end up costing so much.
And it's not unique to the military. The DMV does it, NASA does it, the National Park Service does it...
Oh okay, so they're forced to upkeep their level of spending for fear that the government will cut funding
Yeah beasically.
As for making tanks and stuff. They produce them under contract years (often decades) in advance not really knowing when they'll need them.
It's not easy to just "make a tank." You have to do lots of design work, build the machining and tooling, hire all the people to build it (which for a tank means getting security clearances and checking the supply chain for infiltrators)...
So they do build stuff and then drop it in the motor pool to be used later.
Yeah, it takes a lot of time, I feel you
Anti-military types will claim that's "a ridiculous number of tanks that are sitting ariund"
That's their exact wording
Which, aside from the "ridiculous" part (which is a subjective evaluation) is mostly because they aren't shooting anybody at the moment.
Which is probably better than the alternative.
The best level of military deployment is a question without an easy answer.
The US has a massive military. It also has massive obligations.
And alot of that comes down to holding a stick big enough no one makes you use it.
Yeah, I remember people were talking about how the US have global presence
Europe was completely was almost dependent on the US for defense. Japan, Korea and Taiwan usually measure their time to fight against China alone in weeks of months.
Europe's position is a bit more questionable mostly just because there's not too many obvious threats aside from Russia.
But the South China sea has been warming up.
Ah, I get ya
The US military was actually downsizing from Iraq for awhile now IIRC
So it's less on edge than in the past.
Actually been cancelling jet fighter orders last I heard.
It is a fact that in terms of things like Tanks and planes, the US military is orders of magnitude larger than it's opposition. It's actually very similar to the UK navy just around the 1900s.
Which is slightly worrying. When Germany caught up around 1900-1910...
We're probably several decades away from China challenging the US, but when the China/Russia/Africa Axis hits critical mass things could get much harder.
If it hits critical mass.
Oh, my favorite "spend the whole allocation" Public universities do it. And private universities on public grants.
The US need to clamp down on socialism before that happens because you guys will have so many double agents
Do the socialists recognize China as communist?
I can't tell anymore.
But the Us should do something about the socialists. The general rule is that their policies are often counterproductive or hinder growth.
Or inefficient.
The US is so full of double agents already it's probably not possible to really rout it all out.
Heck, during the cold war, entire segments of the British intelligence services were in the employ of the Soviets or full of soviet sympathizers.
The US is full of such people too.
It's weird because SJWs hate China, but love the policies China put into place
"A protected internet where people can't say things the state disapprove of? Yeah! I love it!"
Because yknow