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E13 – The Defense Budget: too much or too little?

The Merge

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The Importance of Budget Issues

Each service gets money to build their force But they're all building on these different time horizons that don't line up. The Navy is supplemented by industry at about a three and a half to one ratio A federal to commercial rnd spending you think about technology innovation All of the money is really in the commercial side. It's not federal spending So If you if you stop buying tanks like there's no one else that's going to build a tank Just because they're only buyers of like tanks and ships Uh, so you need that capacity I use a tank. There you go Yeah, just drive them across Okay, uh-so that's so that's the We talked about the the smallest

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