A rather illuminating chart from Defense & the National Interest. PDF Version.

Did you know that we are spending as much on defense as we did during the height of the Cold War? Yet many of our military leaders tell us they don’t have enough money and that we need to buy more modern and expensive weapons to assure our national security.

Time to rethink…

Machines don’t fight wars. People do, and they use their minds. – Col John R. Boyd
Military action is important to the nation?it is the ground of death and life, the path of survival and destruction,? so it is imperative to examine it. – Sun Tzu, The Art of War