It takes some tricky math to get where military spending is only 12% of federal spending. First, a soldier wounded in Afghanistan and being treated in a VA hos

It takes some tricky math to get where military spending is only 12% of federal spending. First, a soldier wounded in Afghanistan and being treated in a VA hospital would have to have that cost excluded from the budget. The department of energy dealing with nuclear weapon waste is excluded from that budget. The office of a foreign US embassy serving as cover for a CIA case officer is excluded from that budget. Interest on military deficit spending from last year is excluded from that budget. In fact, add all these things up which don't fall within this theoretical 12% and it comes to hundreds of billions of dollars.