The US could cut its military budget by more than half and not have to even become less offensive. It might need to stop building weapon systems to win a war ag

The US could cut its military budget by more than half and not have to even become less offensive. It might need to stop building weapon systems to win a war against the Soviet Union though. Setting aside the tanks that are built solely to keep congressmen in office, consider US carrier groups — around which the entire US surface fleet is built — it's an open scandal that military exercises with allies frequently result in US carriers being taken out by diesel subs and cruise missiles, but rather than realize that the carrier group is now just as obsolete as the battleship flotilla, the rules of the game get changed. It's like the Japanese planning for Midway all over again (where naval cadets did exactly what the US did and annihilated the Japanese forces so they changed the rules and ran the simulation again).