Lost in the news coming out of Greenland and Iran was President Trump’s announcement earlier this month that his next defense budget request will total .5 trillion. If enacted, this would be the largest peacetime defense budget increase in history, surpassing even the budgets of the Reagan buildup. President Trump ran on a peace-through-strength platform and over the past year has exercised American military strength to restore deterrence. Now, for the first time, the president is pairing his use of the military with a peace-through-strength budget. If leveraged correctly, he will succeed…
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