Pros And Cons Of Military Spending

Position Paper: Should Military Spending be increased or decreased? The United States of America military spending is more than a third of the total global spending of the military in the world. It is estimated to be around $598 billion while the top 14 countries after the U.S., China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, U.K, India, France, Japan, Germany, South Korea, Iraq, Italy, Austria, Brazil, and Israel, combined, is estimated to be $664 billion. The rest of the world accounts for $317 billion combined (Taylor, Karklis). That was not the case back then in the U.S. The U.S. government used to spend very little on defense, which is estimated to be about one percent of GDP (gross domestic product). But, that changed dramatically after World War II when
military spending is that it should be increased. The military spending is used in order to pay for training, health care and salaries of civilian and uniformed personnel; maintain arms, equipment and facilities; to fund operations, and to develop and buy new equipment. It is also used to fund all of the military branches in the country, like the Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps (13 Key Pros and Cons of Military Spending). Many of the expensive things the U.S. military does are crucial if the people are to live in a more peaceful world. The U.S. military’s first priority is to protect the country from foreign invasion. The military is also used to protect the United States allies around the world. One instance of the U.S. promising in defending their allies is with NATO. The U.S. pledged to defend every other NATO member state if they’re ever under attack (Salam). Recently, the United States have been facing threats from ISIS, Russia, and China (Chen). The U.S. has also been facing threats from smaller rogue nations like Iraq, North Korea, Libya, Cuba, Syria, and Sudan (13 Key Pros and Cons of Military Spending). The United States have to defend itself from these threats and in order to do that, the U.S. would have to spend more money on the military in order protect the country and the American people (Chen). Military spending should be increased in order to restore order to the world. Restoring order is very expensive due to the fact that it can’t be done with machines or equipment. It has to done with actual people who are intelligent who are effective in negotiating with others and influence others. The U.S. military spending should be increased for the need of having well-trained men and women with the capability to handle dangerous environments and situations, and the tools that will help aid them. The United States’s technologies that help with the country’s military dominance in the past, have now been