Defense Is the Current Thing in the United States

If a conflict does break out, we are hugely strategically and economically dependent at the highest levels of our technology industry and government on an adversary that is literally committing jeticide enslaving millions of people. The idea of the united states having a military is strong enugh to deter conflict should not be in that category. If you only start building now, you've lost the chance to deter war from happening. That's the real purpose of the defense industry. It's not to fight as it's not to win wars. It's to prevent wars from happening. Wars happen when one or both sides misestimate their probability of winning. And so if you actually want to prevent conflict from haping