President Trump likes big round numbers, and he’s endorsed one — $1 trillion — for the U.S. defense budget. This is the right idea, and we’ll need even more soon enough. It is the president’s wont to declare national emergencies, whether a given situation warrants it or not, but the state of our defenses is a true crisis. While the Pentagon hasn’t recovered from the post-Cold War dr...
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