SHAMAR'S WAR BY KRIS NEVILLE - https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/51072/pg51072-images.html

 The year was 2346, and Earth, at the time, was a political democracy.

Spend only a measly twenty per cent of the Gross World Product on Defense, and expect to keep strong! Good God, Tom, give me a drink!" Apparently heresy had shocked him sober.

Old Tom explained, "The General is a patriot. We all respect him for it."