Trends in U.S. Military Spending
Military budgets are only one gauge of military power. A given financial commitment may be adequate or inadequate depending on the number and capability of a nation’s adversaries, how well it spends its investment, and what it seeks to accomplish, among other factors. Nevertheless, trends in military spending do reveal something about a country’s capacity for coercion. The following charts present historical trends in U.S. military spending and analyze the forces that may drive it lower.
These charts draw on data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Both data sets include spending on overseas contingency operations as well as defense. This distinguishes them from data used in the U.S. budget, which separate defense spending from spending on overseas operations.
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1 comment:
sorry the numbers for russia and china are not true, That's what they report not what they actually spend. The whole concept is utter nonsence. once you start out with flawed data then you conclusions will be flawed. But hey, Let's not let the facts get in the way of a good story! Also done by the swedes, aren't they the ones who made a ton of money of the nazi's during wwII with the policy of neutrality! I call BS on this one!
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