$1.2 Trillion: The National Security Figure No One Wants You To See | Common Dreams

$1.2 Trillion: The National Security Figure No One Wants You To See | Common Dreams

Normally, in media accounts, you hear about the Pentagon budget and the war-fighting supplementary funds passed by Congress for our conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. That already gets you into a startling price range -- close to $700 billion for 2012 -- but that’s barely more than half of it. If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national security budget, it would actually add up to more than $1.2 trillion a year.