Why Didn’t the Cold War’s End Shrink the U.S. Military?
July 7, 2025
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as posted by the channelAfter the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the main threat that justified America’s vast military vanished.
Yet the massive standing army and sprawling defense establishment remained.
By all rights, this should have triggered a deep rethinking of America’s role and military footprint in the world—but it didn’t.
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