I would be curious to hear your response to the fact that the liberal left now controls Congress and the Presidency of the US. Can you now see that the left/right paradigm is a falsehood. Then what really is it (or who is it) controlling our country and our military?

absolutely

We just ended a war, why did they need the budget increased after a reduction in conflict?

if Rumsfeld on 9/10/2001 saying the pentagon can’t account for $2.3 trillion in transactions isn’t bad enough. We later find the pentagon misplaced over $21 trillion from 1998 - 2015.a lot to being lost in the couch or It must be expensive funding corporate interests globally?

I wonder about that all the time, including * how well DOD is doing in cutting waste & excessive charges by military contractors I also keep wondering why we needed a $2.3 trillion tax cut, most of whose benefits accrued to the wealthy, & which significantly increased the deficit

It’s a massive jobs program. A massive pension system. It props up stock prices in millions of retirement accounts. It has a powerful alumni network. And it’s bleeding us dry.

Literal conservative response: "can't put a price on our defense"

To line the pockets of military contractors who in return line the pockets of the legislature. All the while our enlisted men and women struggle to provide for their families.

The money comes back as campaign contributions. It's basically money laundering