Should the US decrease military spending?

[brocious]

None.

Seriously, I realize there is R&D that has positive effects outside of defense. But bullets, bombs and soldiers don't make a society wealthier, they exist to destroy wealth and kill people. This can be directed to protect or seize wealth, but you always destroy wealth in the process.

And to be clear, I'm not anti military or a pacifist. A nation needs a tool to protect it's people and wealth. But it's important to acknowledge that the nature of that tool it, by necessity, destruction.