By Charles Johnston
November 13, 2026
The current 2026 defense budget of the United States is $1,065,220,000,000. With a population of 349,000,000, this is a cost of $3,052 for each U.S. resident. This money is wasted. The U.S. is the most defensible country in the world.
In 1949, the U.S. War Department changed its name. Branches of the armed forces were then administered under the new name: Department of Defense. This newly defined mandate of defending the United States should have been a relatively easy and inexpensive task.
Geography and history render the U.S. the most defensible country in the world. Canada and Mexico, good trading partners of the U.S., have not demonstrated a threat to American territorial integrity; nor would they have the military muscle to do so......
