The Pros And Cons Of Military Spending

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The counties in the world are just worried about themselves.(Knipp, 2017) The countries aren't even trying to make peace treaties. Some countries with a generally big military budget had to decrease their spending due to economic problems.(Knipp, 2017) The counties are feeding into fear by other countries who are coming up with new Military weapons. A solution to the spending is to slowly decrease the spending on the military.

The reason why the world should slowly decrease their spending is that, if the decrease in spending is cut drastically then there is a possibility of the countries going bankrupt is very high.(Blodget 2013) Also, it declines the position in many important areas in the world.(Blodget 2013) It will take some time to decrease

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