04-17-2018, 08:25 AM
(04-15-2018, 11:53 AM)HarleyDog Wrote: 40% seems a little high in the overall strength perception of larger countries like China and Russia. It would be interesting to see that broken down to see where it all goes. I would think a large portion goes into housing, food, salaries for the troops to include education and training.
A few years ago looked at military spending by country and we spend more than the next 18 biggest spenders... COMBINED. So, that means US spending > number 2-19.
Check this article out. Also, take a peak at imported arms spending. China is over double ours. I read an article not ling ago about China finally developing it's first stealth fighter jet..... It basically uses a GE engine we sold them in the late 60s. Reading other articles from a sorts of publications and from all sorts of parts if the world, we are roughly 20-30 years ahead tech wise and that gap keeps widening.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/12491639
I agree with the idea of what the benefits are to our military are vs others = higher spending. We also have a massive global upkeep cost. Even still, I think that because of technology, those costs are still a lot lower than I would probably guess in comparison to the bigger number.
