I wish you could (and many other that decide on debt matters) understand my enrage with the Tom Clancy re-enactment bullshit that our government spends unseen millions on around the world. We can't afford executing hegemony anymore upon anyone.
Russians sold their only aircraft carrier when they found themselves in the financial sewers. They also couldn't afford maintenance of their Arctic Fleet so they abandoned and reused what they couldn't afford. They could have print some more money to keep all that power projection equipment afloat, right? Yet they gave priority to national debt as a national security issue. I hope we saw something is there to be learned from these examples.
We still don't see national debt as a national security issue...