What Did the U.S. Get for $2T in Afghanistan?

Re:What Did the U.S. Get for $2T in Afghanistan? by cjf4 on Monday December 09, 2019 @12:50PM (#21744692)

Military spending is less than a quarter of the budget. Medicare/caid is 55% more than the defense budget, to say nothing of social security or other domestic spending. These may not be the right allocations, but domestic spending is hardly "austere".

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Re:What Did the U.S. Get for $2T in Afghanistan? by spamizbad on Monday December 09, 2019 @01:29PM (#21745013)

Not quite. The military budget itself is really just a base operating budget. Developments towards research, weapon systems, and even wars themselves can and are funded separately.

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