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A Worksheet for Reading Any Defense Budget Number Without Being FooledA defense budget number means little until you adjust it for inflation, the economy and what is inside it. A repeatable worksheet with a worked example.Eisenhower's farewell address gave two warnings and Republicans remember oneEveryone quotes the military-industrial complex line, but the same speech warned about captured science policy and mortgaging the grandchildren with debt.The Star Wars Joke That Helped Bring the Soviets to the TableCritics mocked missile defense as fantasy, but Moscow took it seriously, and it shaped every round of arms talks from 1983 to the INF Treaty.