I would go further and suggest that not only would national security not suffer by cutting the military budget, it could actually be improved. Much of our milit

I would go further and suggest that not only would national security not suffer by cutting the military budget, it could actually be improved. Much of our military deployment around the world is like an insurance policy that costs more over time than the event it attempts to insure against. Not only that, military spending has a lost opportunity cost; it may be that our national security actually depends more on education than on weapons, in which case some proportion of the defense money we're spending is detracting from security, not improving it.