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Pros And Cons Of Low Military Spending

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Although low military spending____. To be clear this argument isn’t pushing for militarization of our country it’s just defending current levels of military spending. The world is a much safer place when America is the strongest military power. There’s many reasons for this such as preventing wars, protecting U.S. citizens and ability to influence decisions. Another positive side of a great military spending is that it will put a fuller use of existing productive capacities, and thus increasing output of goods and services.

The current levels of foreign wars could be prevented. First, although nuclear deterrence will provide the critical underpinning of our military strategy for now and for the foreseeable future, it should be achievable at significantly lower levels of weaponry, and with a much higher degree of stability, that is, with reduced incentives for either side to strike first with strategic nuclear weapons (Nunn page 1) …show more content…

The most important reason to maintain a high military spending is that it will give a country higher national defense capability. It is obvious that the more money government spends on the army, better weapons will be made. It will protect people better as far as the homeland security is concerted. People will live in a safer condition, and not to worry about their family while they’re working. Thus, they will put more efforts in their work because they’re satisfied of their primarily safety. Hopefully, this will bring a better production to nation's economy. Besides american defense, military is also very important to countries’ emergencies. The government spends so much money training soldiers so the trained soldiers can protect american lives from natural disasters. One example is when a country is facing flooding trained soldiers can build a bridge or help evacuate

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