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Re:China’s Silicon Valley Dream Bumps Against Reality by dragontamer on Sunday September 16, 2018 @12:19PM (#17999663)
A lot of US Military spending is wrapped up in infrastructure too.

US Army Corps of Engineers for example maintains levees and dams throughout the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Corps_of_En...

Yeah, that's part of the DoD budget. Really weird, but that's how we budget for things in the USA.

Then there are mixed-projects, like Military colleges and schools. Officers are all college-educated, so when they leave the military, they still benefit private industry all the same. Or DARPA's contributions to the advancements of science (Adoption of TCP/IP and other long-term research projects)

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Re:China’s Silicon Valley Dream Bumps Against Reality by freyr on Sunday September 16, 2018 @12:29PM (#17999705)
> Yeah, that's part of the DoD budget.

$4.8 billion / $639.1 billion = 0.75%

It's a minuscule part of the DoD budget. A rounding error.

The majority is spent by the army, navy, and air force. The biggest expenditure category is operation and maintenance, followed by personnel, then procurement.

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