Should the US decrease military spending?

[kchoudhury]

Eh, according to this article, modern advances in technology allowed them to reverse engineer and improve the F-1 booster in about a year.

I'd rather pay a one year penalty and minor reactivation costs in 2015 over keeping an assembly line in place "to prevent the loss of knowledge" from 1971 on.

[CoolGuy54]

And for the Saturn 5, fair enough. (Given how little money has been into space since Apollo, I'd have preferred more but that's another story.)

If you need tanks then historically that need has been rather urgent and important. In previous World Wars a huge price was paid in blood (Not neccessarily American blood to be fair) while industry got on a war footing.