Re:US military (Score 1)

You see, there's this part of the USA economy, the military-industrial complex (Eisenhower, 1961), which about every decade has to rotate its inventory by spending surplus equipment and ammunition the usual way (wars), in order to renew it with more modern weapons and better technology. The extra benefit: it mitigates the cyclic economic crisis and keeps the economy in good shape. It has worked like a sharm for the last century or so. Just don't look at pile of bodies that leaves behind from time to time.