To listen to the Republican candidates’ debate last week, one
would think that President Obama had slashed the U.S. military budget
and left our country defenseless.
Nothing could be farther off the mark.
There are real weaknesses in Obama’s foreign policy, but a lack
of funding for weapons and war is not one of them. President Obama has
in fact been responsible for the largest U.S. military budget since the
Second World War, as is well documented in the U.S. Department of Defense’s annual “Green Book.”
The table below compares average annual Pentagon budgets under every
president since Truman, using
