Explain this

because peace through strength, as long as the us is the strongest superpower no other country would dare to fight against them. Even if multiple countries would unite against the us they would probably still loose unless they go nuclear. Mutual threat leads to mutual peace

We fund isis in their campaign to clear out the land that will make up greater israel. Why would we want to destroy them?

It's also like something like seventy percent air force.

Bureaucratic bloat.

Largest air force on the planet is US air force. Second largest? US navy. The US navy not only has an air force, it has its own army: the marines. The marines themselves are approximately around the equivalent to the 30th largest army on the planet. Rivaling armies like the Germans. The marines, which is the army of the navy (that has an air force), also have an air force (aviation corp).

So the USA, which already has an air force and army, has a navy, which has its own an army, which in turn again also has its own air force (and sea capabilities).

1. For actual defense. Plenty of countries world wide would love to see the US taken out.

2. For Israel's defense. Bullshit kike manipulation, but still an actual historical fact. (Holla Forums is always right!)

3. R&D is not cheap, and DARPA is the one leading the way in most of the cool new killing machines.

4. Pork barrel bullshit politics, from top to bottom. No compete defense contracts, etc, etc. Money corrupts everything. Have you not heard about $100 toilet seats and shit like that? The no compete Halliburton contracts from the Iraq war in 2003?

Because we have troops stationed across the entire fucking globe and we've basically been fighting nonstop wars since we entered WWII. We literally have not had a single moment where we were not fighting in some sort of capacity somewhere in the world.

That is what happens when you need to protect your status as the worlds reserve currency originator, and also when NATO and incestuous interplay between military contractors and politicians rips you off bigly.

How about mutually assured destruction for a fraction of the cost? Do we really need to build bases in former soviet republics in Central Asia?

Kikes. Lurk the fuck more.

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Retirement money. Veterans can do about nothing for a few years and then get free money and healthcare for the rest of their lives on your tax money. Many of whom aren't even American citizens because the Navy tries to avoid hiring white males.
Then there is also the thousands of aircraft that will see little use.

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Fuck you and your zogbots

Non-burger here. Are you shitting us? Really? Is this true?

There's no way anyone can be that retarded!

spreading marxism around the globe and occupying anyone who might resist isn't cheap

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We have been in wars that were not declared by congress.

The reasons are listed in this thread already, but here they are again:
We pretty much own the world militaristically speaking.
The military wastes fucktons of money on shit and buys shit at really high markup costs.
You need to realize that the government will do whatever it can get away with and this is one of those things. What are you going to do about it? Stop paying taxes? Well then we can just lock you up. They want more power and will do whatever they can to obtain it.

Because you occupy the entire fucking planet you dumb faggot. The average burgercuck doesn't even know how many American military bases there are in Germany.

that Is true that I think off

Went to /k/ once and one user explained why the average costs of repairs of the US airforce was so shit and most of the planes are in bad condition

he explained basically something like

and heard some stories like this from other anons and some not so recent, so I think that kind of explains it

Because America is modern Rome, here's hoping it falls soon.

You have to go back

wut

Because America is modern Rome, Trump is our new Emperor, and may we forever reign on all of Earth and conquer space as well.

FTFY

Because our government is incompetent and think "more expense=better quality." They think our military will always be the best if we just spend more money than anyone else, not realizing this is a flaw in a military complex, not a sign of strength.

Wars are fought primarily in the factories. If your factories can only produce 1 tank for every 100 of the enemies', you better hope your tank can take out at least 100 of theirs.

Also, a ton of money goes to R&D stuff as well. A lot of that goes into tech that is years beyond what we know about. The elite of the US gov and military have a ton of secret projects going on at all times.

All of these are explicitly protected by US under various treaties, and keep their own militaries ridiculously underfunded since the US is there for them anyway. Some like Japan are even prohibited from spending more. Not on that list is countries like Sweden which have defunded their militaries entirely since "NATO will save them anyway".

If US didn't assume protection of these countries and scaled back their budget I'm sure they would shoot up commensurately.

So most of it is bull shit.

That's because the U.S. isn't governed by a single person, dipshit. The fact that the Navy has its own air force makes marginal sense in the light of World War 2, in which our Navy and Marines were entirely engaged on one side of the globe while our Army and Air Force were entirely engaged on the other. Being a Navy pilot required a lot of different training steps, because landing on a carrier without an autopilot computer is a delicate affair to say the least.
I don't know if you are aware of this, but in the U.S. military, each branch has their own culture. This was largely started by World War 2 and the even split between our branches' involvement that I just mentioned. When I say "own culture," I mean that a Marine would get angry if you were to imply that he were in the Army, or that Army soldiers were even remotely comparable to the Marines. Likewise Army men crack wise about how stupid and single minded Marines are all the time ("jarheads" for the flat top haircut that makes their head look like it's sealed with a jar lid). To a certain extent you would expect this kind of rivalry to form between military branches filled with men in their prime, but it's gotten ugly at times.

Did congress declare war in the 2nd ww?

Think that was the last war the US was in. The rest have been various interventions etc… bullshit to be sure, but w/e

We are an empire and remain rich by keeping others down

Yes, America has bases in 120+ countries but that doesn't cost all that much.

Injured soldiers and pensions however is another story however.

The bulks are the munitions and mechanized equipment. The R&D… yikes.

It's needed OP, because without the military industrial complex, 48% of your small businesses would fail as the Federal government is their only customer and small business employees 80+% of people.

You were deindustrialized on purpose to bring the chinks and mystery meats standard of living up to something humane. So without tanks n shiiiite, it's just a service economy. You'd be third world overnight. You produce nothing and as such, have no wealth. See the massive trade surplus everyone runs with America.

It can and should be parred back though. However you haven't made a new icbm in 30 years so it's time to do that but all that nuke shit is… it's expensive. Trump could do that to throw a bone to the Russian crazy types, but it would be best to leave it to a second term. But then if he got a second term, he'd be smart to dump it off on the next guy.

We'll see. #1 should be getting all the dumb nigger cunts and other trash out of the VA which is why it sucks so bad. Clean house and offer better wages to get better people in there.

Oy vey what a very antisemetic question that is!

We really need to revamp the military

Becouse USA has been designated as the world police force.
Get on with the times. This is not hard to figure out.

And what is that traded in, user?
THE PETRODOLLAR
The whole world is paying for the US military to good goy their asses.
We are living in a one world NWO. The TTIP and TPP would be just the formalization of the scheme.

Wait.. What? So the industrial military complex is some bizarro world version of Keysanian Economics where the government goes into debt to keep the economy going? Except that the program never ends and it doesn't produce anything useful like F.D.R.' s Work Projects.