We should be prepared to support regional security organizations and the United Nations in preventing or alleviating the effects of violence or other events that may serve to heighten international tensions. We don't need to cut it further. Such analysis of historical trends in U.S. military spending are misleading for a couple of reasons. Other than the Korean War, military spending in 1985 was higher than at any time since the end of World War II, exceeding even the peak years of the Vietnam War. Even though there have been 13 straight years of cuts in annual military spending, we are only just now getting down to the levels of the Carter Administration.
Military spending creates jobs.