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The False Narrative of America’s Military Budget

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Wes O'Donnell
Oct 06, 2016
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Teaching college students about data and analytics is fun; I love how data can shatter preconceptions and everyday notions of reality. Knowing that their instructor is a military veteran, a group of my students recently asked me why America spends so much on its military. They claimed it was overkill and that the United States spends …

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