Military Spending Essay

Military spending in the U.S has been a widely debated issue for years; should we spend more, or spend less? We are in the 21st century and the world is becoming a scarier place to live in. Our military needs to grow to keep citizens safe, restore peace, and protect allies. So why wouldn’t we increase military spending, what good would come of that except not spending as much, but at what cost? Our safety? The rest of the world is growing in technology and ways to harm the US. We need to be at the top of this chain, and military spending cutbacks will only set us back further. There are many threats that face the united states each day and these threats are getting stronger by the minute. North korea, a very scary country with a very unpredictable leader, Kim Jong Un, is hostile the United states and we can’t him and his military cause harm onto our great nation. North korea launches nuclear weapons into the sea of Japan to assert the fact that they are a strong military with great weapon systems and have the ability to go to war with global superpowers, such as the US. North korea also has 1.2 million active duty soldiers and 7.7 reserved soldiers. The united states has 1.4 million active duty soldiers and 1.1 million reserved soldiers. The north koreans have more soldiers at their disposal then the US. How do we …show more content…
Cyber terrorists can expose information of individual people, uncover classified military information essential for national security, or even crash the stock market. Bringing down cyber terrorists takes a special group of intelligence analysts, government computer hackers and counter terrorism specialists to stop them from causing havoc on the U.S. What would happen if we had a security breach? The enemy would know almost everything about american units which would allow the enemy to know what our units do, what special capabilities we have, and much