I don’t think even a purely defensive military could be that small for the US. We have a lot of coastline on two oceans, plus distant holdings in Alaska and Hawaii. Even discharging Guam and the like would still be a lot of ground and ocean to cover.
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Zehzin@lemmy.world 10 months agoWould be neat if they found a way to only spend like 200 billion a year (the GDP of Hungary) on the people grinder.
frezik@midwest.social 10 months ago
Zehzin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My googling says the US spent 185b on the DHS last year and has 100b for FY2024, which includes the stupid mexico wall. I’m sure there would be more things to deal with not included in that and it would take time to transition, but any reduction is a positive gain.
TyrionsNose@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But we spend nearly $200 billion just paying salaries. We spend the most because we are also an expensive country to live in and that means paying the folks who volunteer a decent wage.
We would have to significantly downsize the military personnel and pretty much operate as homeland defense only.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That sounds great