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Re: Putin to increase military spending by 85% through 2017.

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 17 Dec 14 9:13 PM | 21 view(s)
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just looked up the absolute numbers. us military spending in absolute terms is as much as the next 9 biggest spenders.

so it is a lot. but not what it was.

1 USA 640bn
2 China 188
3 Russia 87.8
4 Saudi Arabia 67
5 France 61.2
6 UK 57.9
7 Germany 48.8
8 Japan 48.6
9 India 47.4
10 S Korea 33.9

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Re: Putin to increase military spending by 85% through 2017.
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Tue, 16 Dec 14 6:10 PM 		Msg. 16577 of 54959

hi orda,

there's no doubt that the us is a military goliath. but bear in mind that chinese spending is catching up fast as its economy grows.

at present rates of growth, i would hazard a guess that china's military expenditure will equal us expenditure within 10 years or so.

also, us spending on its military has reduced from 4.7% to 3.8% of GDP since 2010.

so although these statements about us expenditure may once have held true, i am not sure they do currently.

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS

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