For those who wish we could spend our defense budget ensuring more citizens do not need to work and congress can receive bigger pay raises, remember that other countries still spend on their defense, and that to enjoy the comforts we have become accustomed to, we must remain at the top of the defense heap.

“Russia recently conducted a flight test of a new warhead that can change course in midflight, which U.S. and Russian officials are calling part of Moscow's efforts to defeat U.S. missile defenses.” [Read]