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Re:Switzerland begins tests on the longest train tunnel in t... by maxxxxx on Thursday January 21, 2016 @03:00PM (#10947873)
Defense is a pretty inefficient way to fund R&D. I don't know the numbers but the percentage of the defense budget that actually goes into R&D is probably pretty low.
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Re:Switzerland begins tests on the longest train tunnel in t... by saiya-jin on Friday January 22, 2016 @04:04AM (#10951633)
just one example out of many - F22/F35 program costs (is it still 1.5 trillion USD?), which cover just one tiny (albeit important) piece of US military offensive power (calling it defense is just a bad joke).

plenty of nasty diseases could be put out of existence with just a fraction of that, for example

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