I'm not sure what that means. We spent different amounts at different times on the Cold War. There were times in the Cold War when we were spending 7% of our GNP—as we called it at the time—on military, in 1955, 1956, and 1957. We were spending 40% of the budget on national defence back then. There's absolutely no need for anything like that today.
On February 28th, 2012. See this statement in context.