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Counting the Pieces: Defense Spending and the “Ever Shrinking Fighting Force”

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Do We Really Need a New Weapon?

The Pentagon spends more than 400 billion dollars a year on goods and services, supplies and equipment. It takes forever to fill these new modern systems. The second biggest problem is the cost of the all volunteer force. We can never pay our military enough for what they do,. But the fully burdened cost in john hammery a nut, again, is another expert here.

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