Military Times: China, Russia military spending surges
While U.S. military spending from 2007 to 2014 remained largely flat, military spending among the world's top 15 military spenders skyrocketed, according to data released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
The U.S. spent about $610 billion on its military in 2014, making up nearly 43 percent of the funds spent by the top 15 spending nations. Trailing in a distant second was China, which spent an estimated $216 billion (15.1 percent), followed by Russia, which spent an estimated $84.5 billion (5.9 percent) and Saudi Arabia, which spent $80.8 billion (5.7 percent), according to the data.
Altogether, military spending by the top 15 countries in 2014 came to about $1.4 trillion, representing about 80 percent of worldwide military spending.
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4 comments:
Purchasing power parity is a dirty word.
Asymmetric warfare is another dirty Phrase.
Infantilizing NATO memembers by covering their ass is a gsame of chicken.
If we slack (spend less) to force them to spend more (their 4% of GDP fair share), they might not.
After all who cares about the Fulda gap?
The money spent by China on its military most likely came from US interest on loans and taxes on profit made by the suppliers to the US mega corps, therefore also paid for by the US.
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