US Military Spending Increased? Yes

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ny new or older, revitalized threats have emerged to endanger the democracies of the West and that this re-emergence is categorized by a gross lack of predictability in addition to a great variety (The Terrorist Research Center 1).
Thus besides all out war there are other threats, and other kinds of threats, that have proven to be concerns for America’s many interests and thus spending indeed needs to be increased. A perfect example of a different kind of threat that has perpetrated America’s defense is terrorism. Especially since September eleventh it has become all too clear that terrorism is a very serious threat to our nation’s economy, security, and prosperity. Obviously before then our nation was not prepared for such an attack, and thus we now need to economically account for a much more serious anti-terrorism effort. This is just one example of changing times—the U.S. had never experienced such a serious blow from foreign terrorism in its entire history. Thus with the changing current events our military must change too, and this means an increase in spending to ensure that a country once not prepared to stop certain attacks such as the one on September eleventh can indeed prevent another like thing from happening. Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Henry H. Shelton summed this up wonderfully about the U.S. military when he said “the force must have the capability to dominate across a full spectrum of military operations all at once. Not only able to dominate in one place, at one moment in time, but be flexible and responsive enough to undertake multiple task...