Not necessarily. It's a reasonable model, and claim, that there exists some optimal amount of military spending. It's also a reasonable claim (at the very least

Not necessarily. It's a reasonable model, and claim, that there exists some optimal amount of military spending. It's also a reasonable claim (at the very least in retrospect) that the US would have done better had it used the trillions of dollars it spend between 2000-present on education/health/infrastructure over Iraq etc.