Defund the Military? House Resolution Attempts to Address Massive Defense Budget
by Sam Gerard • 30 June 2020
Between 1980 and 1985, President Ronald Reagan presided over the biggest peacetime defense buildup in US history. This expansion helped the United States develop stealth technology, precision weaponry, counter-air systems, new aircraft, and many other defense expenditures to demonstrate that it was the unequivocal global superpower.
Some historians like to argue that this led to the fall of the Soviet Union and a resolution to the Cold War standoff between the two countries. Regardless, many agree that this military scale-up, coupled with the First Gulf War and 9/11, helped cement the military as a hallmark of American identity alongside baseball, apple pie, and bad reality television.
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