The inverse of less weapons leading to less war, is more weapons leading to more war. So then, it doesn’t take a genius to understand that when a nation such as America, insists upon having a military budget that is well-nigh approaching an astonishing $1 trillion, that those that are the actuators of such a budget, are going to do just about everything in their power to see that such a budget as that, is not only justified, but that it is also utilized in a way and manner that seems to prove its enduring value. That is to say, the manufacturing of weapons is one thing and one expense, but to just have all those weapons sitting idly in inventory, and hence going unused, is not only going to make it problematic to thus receive future funding at the same high level, but it also is a clear reflection that the money so having been spent upon those weapons, was not actually necessary or prudent. This thus signifies that the more monies spent on “Defense” the more “defending” that a nation is going to have to do to justify it all.
So then, as simple as it might so sound, the less money so spent on Defense, the less foreign excursions and warfare a nation is going to get itself involved in. For instance, we do so find that the whole purpose of arms negotiation talks done with Russia and similar, is so that each side would not only devote far less monetary resources as well as research and development upon the manufacture of weapons, but also because of having less weapons, this would make for having less warfare. To believe then, that there will be more peace, by virtue of spending more money of weaponry is senseless and has no place in a world in which the destructive power of nuclear weapons can already end the world as we know it, virtually instantly.
In truth, it would then behoove the nation that leads all other nations by a country mile, in the amount of money so being spent and devoted upon its military, to take the first step in seeing that its expenditures are reduced, forthwith, by not only negotiating this with other nations such as Russia, or China, but with virtually any other nation, in which such negotiation would lend itself to less monies being mutually spent upon the instruments of war, as compared to that money being spent upon that which is beneficial to the people’s need, in whole.
We live in a known world, in which sovereign nations are entitled to their own rule of law, in which, should we so desire to get involved in another nation’s business for humanitarian reasons or similar, we should responsibly pursue first a diplomatic course as well as other civilized means, before even considering the utilization of our force of arms. So then, if we are going to become truly civilized, the very first step that we need to take as a collective people, is to first put down our arms, and thereby treat one another with the courtesy and respect that each person or nation is fairly entitled to.