Spending on the overall “war machine” is split up into a number of buckets, specifically so that people like you can misleadingly point at one of them and say “

Spending on the overall “war machine” is split up into a number of buckets, specifically so that people like you can misleadingly point at one of them and say “that’s it, that’s the whole thing”, when in fact the military industrial complex milks taxpayers for well over a trillion each year in total: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/tom-dispatch-america-defense-budget-bigger-than-you-think/tnamp/ https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/tom-dispatch-ameri...