What Does The U.s. Spend On The Military Every Year?

I see the pros and cons to each side, and find value within each point. However, looking at the grand scheme of things, I believe war is necessary. Yes, it is violent and gruesome and many innocent lives are lost, but is there a better way? I believe if there was a better way to solve the conflicts many wars are fought over, that this method would be already implemented. The fact is that war works, and has worked for centuries. Take for example arguably the most important war in all of American history. The revolutionary war freed us from Great Britain. Without that very war, we as a nation may still be under British rule and control, and all of history would have been altered. This is not to say that I am a supporter of involvement in specific wars, just a supporter of war in general. I do not believe that each conflict between a nation is means for a war to be fought, but only in the case where peaceful disputes and efforts have failed. My overall view lies similar to Tim O’Brien’s view as he stated in his novel. “It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it must have reasonable confidence in the justice and imperative of its cause. You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead” (O’Brien 38). There is a time and a place for war.

“War is peace,” (Orwell 7). This is such a seemingly contradictory statement, however, it holds true for much of our culture today. I was born December 18th, 2001, 3 months and 7 days after the attack on 9/11. Ever since then the United States of America has constantly been at war with the middle east. In other words, the United States has constantly been at war my entire life. This is similar to the war that is going on during 1984. Although we may not have necessarily been constantly changing

War, if justified, seems to be inevitable. Those who have experienced any physical conflict know that one of the most significant parts to war is fear. Fear, although it is an unpleasant emotion, can be useful in battle, to keep those fighting on edge and remain vigilant. Elie Wiesel explains just how fearful he was as a young boy during the holocaust by stating, “Fear was greater than hunger” (Wiesel 59). For Wiesel to exaggerate the fact that fear was more prominent than hunger is significant given the fact that they were forced to function on little to no food already. Fear is the most significant emotion felt during any conflict, regardless of the circumstance, and can be proven so in any battle ever fought.

Those who believe that war is inevitable argue that violence and war is a part of human nature. In the article “War! What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing” by John Horgan (2008), the author states, “War, in other words, is inevitable because it is innate, “in our genes,”

The books 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, both societies are often exposed to the idea of war and how they should support it, and society today is often exposed to war as well.

“Courage isn’t a matter of is or is not; it’s about being afraid and doing what has to be done in spite of it” (Jon Pertwee). War is always hard, no one wants it and many people try to avoid it. No one wants to see their kids die, or for them to see people they know very well, even love, burn. No one wants to bury their kid or their husband, father, wife, mother, or anyone. War in itself, is needed. War is profitable to the winning side, war reparations and the payments made to soldiers help the economy. War can also defend the natural human rights. It also bring people who would have never otherwise of talked become the closest friends. War also helps with the countries understanding of any scientific field. War is controversial but it can

I consider myself a lucky person because I never had the chance to live a real war events. I learned in school about wars involving my country, I read many books about wars, I watched many movies about wars, but I never have experienced the emotions of war. Anyway, there have been wars since the beginning of the world and continues to exist today. In my family there are few members who have experienced the horrors of war and even my parents told me about the negative effects of war seen through the eyes of children. I understood how bad war can bring both to a human life and in the life of a nation. But most of the time, I thought only the negative effects of war in terms of economic, social, loss of lives, and less on the

There are people who believe war must happen to make a great change to better a country. People believe that the soldiers are brave and that they are doing heroic acts, the war will save them from the unrest within their own country, and that additional territory will be granted to them. War seems to be the answer to a lot of peoples’ questions. It plays an important role in America’s government and in their political standpoint.

War never changes, it will always be around for as long as we are here, with it, it brings genocide. Every day we are in a constant battle with each other, whether it be at home or across the oceans. We have invented weapons solely to cause mass destruction across entire continents. This has led to limitations being placed on warfare, but sometimes it's not enough. "We have to protect our Earth, so our children and grandchildren will never suffer like that"

My proposal is about the spending of the United States discretionary spending (money the Federal Government can allocate to areas that government officials see appropriate) on its military. Military expenses in the United States reaches over 596 billion dollars a year, which is roughly 60% of the disposable funds available to the United States Federal Government. This report will determine reasons as to why the United States military receives such a high percentage of the disposable revenue, and how the military budgets the government funds that they receive. Also, this report will discuss areas lacking in government aid.

The federal budget is split into three parts the mandatory spending, discretionary spending, and interest on debt. It may seem like the interest on debt would need the biggest part of the budget because the U.S. is trillions of dollars in debt, but this part of the budget actually takes up the least amount of money. The mandatory and discretionary take up a little over 90% of the whole budget paying for all of the services the government provides citizens.

The United States spends more money on defense than any other country in the world. The Department of Defense accounts for the majority of the discretionary spending in the federal budget. Discretionary spending is government spending that covers the cost of routine activities commonly associated

When the United States puts in billions of dollars into military spending to help defend our nation. It only causes Russia and China to spend their dollars on their militaries, so they can have bigger armies, navies, and air force. So military spending doesn’t help protect our nation, if our rivals like Russia and China would see this as a threat to spend on their military. But if the United States, Russia, and China come together and agree on cutting down their spending in their military. There won’t be any more world tension being caused by these nations building up their militaries. But if they don’t stop spending on their military, it would cause another World War later on in the future. This is one of the reasons, why World War I caused

War is strongly ingrained into our world today whether we like it or not and while it may seem more prevalent and worse lately considering the advances in technology and the increase in hysteria over security, war is not a recent adjunct to society. That poses the question, where does war come from? As human beings, are we hard-wired biologically to fight each other or is it a behaviour influenced by peers and morals?

2. There are different theories that seek to explain why humans still fight in war. Some of the individual, state and global level theories of conflict are based on: Human Nature or Individual Leaders, States’ Internal characteristics, and Global Level System (Turetzky lec 11). Human Nature arguments for the causes of war are based in Sigmund Freud idea that “aggression is simply part of human nature that stems from humans’ genetic programming and psychological makeup.” Realists also “argue that violence is a product of bad human nature” and that there is not anything to eliminate this bad human habit. I believe that it is true that humans’ nature is composed with an instinct of violence (War). However, society has a lot to do with the expansion of this bad habit. Today aggression is embedded in everything, which enforces our acceptance and practice of violence. Obviously, as realists argue, it is almost impossible to eliminate this bad habit from human nature. In contrast, the individual Leader arguments blame the state leaders for wars. However, we can’t blame a country’s leader for war. The author Stoessinger, stated in his book that a state head’s perceptions are decisive in war (Stoessinger 65). I believe that a leader’s