Danger of an Arms Race (fwd)

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Fri May 15 18:23:30 PDT 1998


Brad De Long wrote:


> I think most of them are what one might call Clancyites: people
> who think that high-tech weapons are cool toys, and thus that we
> should build more of them because of their coolness.

I'm sure this make good ad copy on mailing lists, but a full 70% of the defense budget of the US is for personnel related items. That is: food, shelter, payroll, benefits ... these "toys" aren't very much of the budget.

/jordan



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