Given the challenges the Pentagon faces with Iran, Russia, China, and the southern border, one might assume that granting it $1.5 trillion'that's trillion, with a t'in annual funding could only strengthen America's overstretched military. 'President Trump's historic defense budget guarantees that we keep our competitive edge across every sector,' Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says in a video posted on his Facebook page. But, much like the lottery winners who haul in megamillions and then see their lives deteriorate, that influx of funding could actually be the worst thing to happen to the Defense Department. Such overwhelming abundance would allow the president and the Pentagon to postpone the hard strategic choices modern warfare requires. An administration flush with cash can afford the illusion that it can prepare simultaneously for every possible threat'large-scale war with China, attacks by terrorist groups, Russian land grabs in Europe, missile strikes from North Korea,...
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