In an era of pandemics and climate change, we need to reconsider what “national security” means - Scientific American
▻https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-rein-in-inflated-military-budgets
Such a reassessment is long overdue. Despite the trillions of dollars Congress and successive administrations have lavished on the Pentagon since the turn of the century, the massive U.S. arsenal and fighting force deployed worldwide are powerless against grave, nonmilitary threats to national security—from a raging pandemic to the fact that tens of millions of Americans breathe foul air, drink tainted water, and struggle to pay for food, housing and health care.