August 24, 2020
A Modest Proposal? Defunding or Disbanding the U.S. Military as Responses to National Failure
While defense prognosticators are more concerned about budgets, platforms, and national adversaries, we propose a modest thought experiment of shifting the language of defunding or disbanding the police to the military, and considering what that might mean in practice.
by Anand Toprani Michael Dennis
In the midst of these profound social challenges afflicting the United States today, our national security establishment is stubbornly focused on “great-power competition,†which is a short-hand for conventional, high-end kinetic conflict between militaries. The unclassified summary of the 2018 National Security Strategy, remarkably, makes no mention of climate change, and even the Obama Administration’s 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review devoted only a few paragraphs to the subject. The services themselves make no secret of their priorities, focusing on the acquisition of high-end aircraft, ships, and hypersonic missiles they cannot afford despite record budgets, as well as a wholescale nuclear modernization.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/modest-proposal-defunding-or-disbanding-us-military-responses-national-failure-167590
