This plan... there's no need to hit the abort button.
The speaker shrugged. "Looks like we all chose a different path."
The Military isn't a single sheet of steel either; there are still factions, still cliques.
In the past their main conflict was probably just about money.
The Federation's annual military budget is only so much. With no war, and no real prospect of war, that military spending stays pretty limited.
If the army takes a bigger share, the navy can only settle for less.
Yet whether it's the army or the navy, their equipment burns money like crazy.
Take those warships, for example. A single large-displacement battleship is expensive enough to make the army's lungs explode.
The two sides have argued at Congressional hearings over the military budget, and it's happened more than once or twice.
They're soldiers, after all!
Once the temper flares, they whip off their belts and start lashing each other.
