"The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win." -- Robert A. Heinlein Can't say it much bette

"The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win." -- Robert A. Heinlein Can't say it much better than that. Threats aren't static. Wise planners plan around enemy capabilities, not intentions. Even ignoring the more BS of the claims about who are our enemies, there are real ones. After getting caught unprepared in two world wars, the US people and military had decided it shouldn't happen again. Secondarily, the constitution doesn't really make allowances for a federal industrial policy, so the clearest constitutional levers they have are in the national defence area.