Every year, Fred Kaplan is the only person in the country who actually reads the U.S. Military Budget. The folks in Washington who vote to approve it certainly don't, nor do they even read the kind of handy summary Fred provides. It usually turns out that we're spending way more than we have to, much of it on things we don't need and which won't make us one bit safer. But no one wants to oppose any of it because they don't want to be accused of being "soft on defense."