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As we’ve been running in place, our enemies have been building capacity.
President Trump likes big round numbers, and he’s endorsed one — $1 trillion — for the U.S. defense budget.
This is the right idea, and we’ll need even more soon enough.
It is the president’s wont to declare national emergencies, whether a given situation warrants it or not, but the state of our defenses is a true crisis. While the Pentagon hasn’t recovered from the post–Cold War drawdown and Obama-era strictures on its spending, foreign threats have been rising.
This disconnect could, in the worst case, result in the United States losing a major war and its great-power status.