Sounds like the Civilian Conservation Corps, which I believe actually caused massive habitat destruction due to draining wetlands. There are diminishing returns

Sounds like the Civilian Conservation Corps, which I believe actually caused massive habitat destruction due to draining wetlands. There are diminishing returns to these sort of projects, especially if you don't want to bulldoze the houses that have been built where forests used to thrive naturally. I have high doubts that you could spend the whole DoD budget productively. Meanwhile, it would also: - Remove spending equivalent to 3.5% of US GDP, causing a recession. - Create a power vacuum that nations would war over as they rushed to fill it.