Navel Defense? Missile Shields? Good luck with that....

They would be better off building bunkers that can house millions of people for the population to retreat into (at least in Cities). Is the US Military that inept that they don't see what war has become? It's basically streaming live from Ukraine.

If there is one thing I have noticed is that big military powers can be stopped and exhausted by much smaller countries using off the shelf tech. America still needs to learn that lesson and Iran might be the place where it happens....

This would be better without the "AI" generated image, which made me read the article for slopstyle tells.

The article also ignores the fact that most/all federal spending seems to enrich Trump or the primary Trump children. It views defense spending as if it will get done in a 1980s fashion, deliberately and inefficiently, but by good faith contractors. That's unlikely to be true now. Sure, it will be done inefficiently, but also corruptly, as in the Russian oligarch model.