Government Spending on Defense and Education

A second pillar for the strategy is building security globally. This is really looking at our forward presence, our building partnership capacity efforts, our mil-to-mil engagements and exercises around the world. And the -- the purpose behind building security globally is really to deter threats wherever we can, as far away from our shores as possible, and to work together with our allies and partners in dealing with common security challenges. The last piece of our strategy is sort of, arguably, the more kinetic pillar of the strategy, and that's -- we've called it projecting power, and winning decisively, and here, we see the ability of the joint force to project power around the world as sort of a signature of our U.S. military. It's one of our core strengths. It's essential to protect that, particularly in an environment that we see becoming less permissive, where we see A2/AD threats growing."1 9/11 marked the first time there had ever been a terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Since those attacks security in America has become far more important than in years prior. Only eleven days after the attacks on 9/11/2001 the wheels were turning to create a branch to ease the minds of American citizens." Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge was appointed as the first Director of the Office of Homeland Security in the White House. The office oversaw and coordinated a comprehensive national strategy to safeguard the country against terrorism and respond to any future attacks."2 The creation of the Department of Homeland Security basically took twenty two branches of government and combined them into one, this may seem like it would be a decrease in cost because of downsizing one branch of government into one but in fact it caused a small increase in cost to the average tax paying citizen. Homeland Security was the major pillar in the 2015 budget request. In the same Department of Defense briefing in which Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Christine Wormuth laid the logic behind the budget request , Lieutenant General Mark Ramsey stated in exact figures just how much the Department of Defense would ask for the fiscal year 2015.