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Originally Posted by slapass
We are not at war, why do we need a huge military?
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The size of our military has been declining nearly every year since 1970. We had 3,064,000 in 1970 and 1,468,000 now (well 2011 really). That's been nearly cut in half.
Keep in mind that during Iraq and Afghanistan our military didn't grow much and remained at the 1.5 million mark.