The F-35 - $11.4 billion project wikipedia commons With $700 billion in projected defense cuts, and more than $1 trillion in cuts if a budget agreement can't be reached by the super-committee, military 'experts' are claiming the U.S. will be all but defenseless.

Maybe not.

Between 2009 and 2010 defense spending increased 3 percent even as the economy continued to slow, with the 2012 military budget claiming $1.4 trillion tax dollars.

That amount doesn't even include classified programs and that money is buying expensive equipment that is just as costly to maintain.

The path is unsustainable as the following charts from CFR's Center for Geoeconomic Studies will show.