Four Percent for Freedom: Maintaining Robust National Security Spending
Congress and the President should commit to spending 4 percent ofGDP on national defense even after any drawdown of U.S. forces inAfghanistan or Iraq, both to prevent a recurrence of the "hollowforce" and to meet immediate modernization needs, and reform themajor entitlement programs that threaten the budget and the economyover the long term.
Source: heritage.org