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Eshe Nelson in her article informs about Trump’s proposal to increase military spending by $54 billion next year. She compares proposed military spending with overall budgets of different states analyzing that this new spending would be higher than overall budgets of Israel, Canada, Taiwan, Turkey and Mexico combined. She also states that this will be race with Russian military spending which is approximately the same as proposed one.
In his turn, Bruce Gagnon, secretary and coordinator at the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, says that US is heading to rule the world increasing its military capacities. According to him, “The US is telling North Korea, Iran, Russia and China that you must surrender to our domination or we will destroy you.” US is dependent on military spending which could lead to the collapse of its economy.
According to Bruneau and Tollefson (2006), military spending is very important factor in civil-military relations. It is one of the factors on which directly dependent the civilian control over the military. Efficiency of the military control depends also on the amount of spending taking into account other spending beside the military as the outspending for defense sector could cause bankrupting the state and hurt its economy. However, the military spending is more likely to prevent the corruption and discipline loss in military, and provide more professionalized military. As Huntington stated civilian control over military leads to professional military.
In this case of increase of spending in defense sector US does not seem like there is lack of professionalism in their military and the issue could be Trump’s personal politics to provide himself military support. As it known, he already had some retired generals in his team. Thus one could suppose that he is politicizing military as he increases the spending and military would support him more. As the military spending would be more than some states’ overall budget both the world and locals will see the capacities of their country, this would provide local support and frighten the world. However, Trump is willing to rise military spending even there will be need for contraction in other sectors. Thus, this would work as far as it will not negatively affect overall US economy.
Eshe Nelson in her article informs about Trump’s proposal to increase military spending by $54 billion next year. She compares proposed military spending with overall budgets of different states analyzing that this new spending would be higher than overall budgets of Israel, Canada, Taiwan, Turkey and Mexico combined. She also states that this will be race with Russian military spending which is approximately the same as proposed one.
In his turn, Bruce Gagnon, secretary and coordinator at the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, says that US is heading to rule the world increasing its military capacities. According to him, “The US is telling North Korea, Iran, Russia and China that you must surrender to our domination or we will destroy you.” US is dependent on military spending which could lead to the collapse of its economy.
According to Bruneau and Tollefson (2006), military spending is very important factor in civil-military relations. It is one of the factors on which directly dependent the civilian control over the military. Efficiency of the military control depends also on the amount of spending taking into account other spending beside the military as the outspending for defense sector could cause bankrupting the state and hurt its economy. However, the military spending is more likely to prevent the corruption and discipline loss in military, and provide more professionalized military. As Huntington stated civilian control over military leads to professional military.
In this case of increase of spending in defense sector US does not seem like there is lack of professionalism in their military and the issue could be Trump’s personal politics to provide himself military support. As it known, he already had some retired generals in his team. Thus one could suppose that he is politicizing military as he increases the spending and military would support him more. As the military spending would be more than some states’ overall budget both the world and locals will see the capacities of their country, this would provide local support and frighten the world. However, Trump is willing to rise military spending even there will be need for contraction in other sectors. Thus, this would work as far as it will not negatively affect overall US economy.
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http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/04/17/518328/US-addicted-to-war-military-spending
https://qz.com/937285/donald-trumps-proposed-54-billion-boost-to-defense-spending-is-bigger-than-the-total-annual-military-budget-of-all-but-two-countries/
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