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国家安全涉及巨额商业交易,这是不可否认的.但是,听了人们关于什么是军事预算的必要规模的长期争论,你很容易得出这样的印象:似乎花掉的美元越多,买到的安全也就越多.当然,事实绝非如此。与国家安全有关联的,并不是所花掉的美元,而是所具备的军事能力.最近纷纷传闻五角大楼购买了价格为500美元的锤子和价格为7,000美元的咖啡壶,那只不过是军事采购当中纯粹浪费的极小部分而已。更为重要得多的,是我们时代的严重而又执迷不悟的错误:把贮存空前多的高级武器与军事能力划了等号,进而又把军事能力与国家安全划了等号.
It is undeniable that national security involves large commercial transactions, but it is easy to come to the impression that the more people spend seem to spend on buying long-term debates about what is the necessary size of a military budget Of course, the more safety, of course, the fact is not the case. It is not the U.S. dollar spent but the military capability it has to do with national security, with recent rumors of the Pentagon buying a hammer for $ 500 and a coffee maker for $ 7,000, a mere military procurement Among them is a very small part of pure waste. Much more important is the grave and erratic mistake of our time: Equating the unprecedented stockpile of high-level weapons with military capabilities, and in turn equating the military capabilities with national security.