The Military Industrial Complex's Endless Grasp for Cash The US defense budget is careening towards an unprecedented crisis, driven by Pete Hegseth's audacious request for a $454 billion increase in 2027 military spending.
This would catapult the Pentagon's total budget to nearly $1. 5 trillion, rivaling wartime peaks of World War II.
Hegseth's pivot from a supposedly lean and mean 8% annual budget cut to this gargantuan increase speaks volumes about the chaos reigning within the Pentagon.