Over the course of human history, military might has had dire consequences, including frequent wars, an enormous toll of death, injuries, and population displacement, immense financial cost, imperialist arrogance, military coups, and the diversion of resources from other areas of human life. Furthermore, military power has often been ineffective in safeguarding the national security that it is supposedly protecting. Rather than continuing to pour the wealth of nations into the failing system of national military might, how about adopting a less costly, more effective approach?