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**RaicickKida** · 07-04-2010, 10:47 AM

If this country gave up its empire, and only resorted to force to repel invasions, how much money per year would the DoD need? I would not be surprised if the figure is an order of magnitude, if not two orders of magnitude, lower than what is spent on "defense" now.

Your question assumes the US has an empire and that the actions it takes now are not part of repeling an invasion. A strawman, in other words. But Ill bite. Were the US to remove all military forces from around the world, and only defend from its borders, the DoD would definetly require much less budget currently.

Unfortunately, when the US soon had to go stop China or Russia from taking over Eurasia, they would have to spend all the money they saved plus, getting back to superpower strength and establishing bases. They would probably also lose quite a lot of trade money and economic growth as our trade partners who they currently protect through threat of defense were threatened and overtaken. Taiwain and South Korea for example. The middle east.

And even with a dod budget 1/4 of what it is now, the US would still have a trillion dollar deficit.

07-04-2010, 10:47 AM	#7
RaicickKida Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 388 Senior Member	If this country gave up its empire, and only resorted to force to repel invasions, how much money per year would the DoD need? I would not be surprised if the figure is an order of magnitude, if not two orders of magnitude, lower than what is spent on "defense" now. Your question assumes the US has an empire and that the actions it takes now are not part of repeling an invasion. A strawman, in other words. But Ill bite. Were the US to remove all military forces from around the world, and only defend from its borders, the DoD would definetly require much less budget currently. Unfortunately, when the US soon had to go stop China or Russia from taking over Eurasia, they would have to spend all the money they saved plus, getting back to superpower strength and establishing bases. They would probably also lose quite a lot of trade money and economic growth as our trade partners who they currently protect through threat of defense were threatened and overtaken. Taiwain and South Korea for example. The middle east. And even with a dod budget 1/4 of what it is now, the US would still have a trillion dollar deficit.
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