When we're not in a declared war, nothing about funding the Pentagon is "vital." And the NDAA is "supported" on a bi-partisan basis because Congress is "bought and sold by the Military Industrial Complex" on a bi-partisan basis. Just so we're clear.

No it wasn't. We didn't even have a standing army until after WW2. And it was Eisenhower's Farewell Address in 1960 where he coined the phrase and warned us about the MIC.