> National Defense is a luxury good until it isn't. Moreover, it is not something that can be purchased on short notice. This is a semantic game. Sure "nationa

> National Defense is a luxury good until it isn't. Moreover, it is not something that can be purchased on short notice. This is a semantic game. Sure "national defense" is important, but the US military is not primarily a tool of national defense, it's a tool of global empire building and management. Most of what the US could ever plausibly need for actual defense is sitting in nuclear missile silos and submarines.