TY - ADVS AU - Baker,Glenn TI - The military budget and you PY - 1997/// CY - Washington PB - Center for Defense Information KW - Class distinction KW - Military art and science KW - Economics N1 - Executive producer, Gener R. LA Rocque; Narrator: Margeret Knudson N2 - American taxpayers paid $13.4 trillion to fight the Cold War. Annual spending on the military averaged $304 billion per year between 1948 and 1995. For comparison, the entire 45,000-mile interstate highway system cost $150 billion over its 40-year development ER -