- The US military spending of currently $710 billion (that’s 23% of the US Federal Spending) dwarfs the combined military annual expenditures of its European allies, which total about $280 billion.
- In comparison, Germany spends $31 billion on military, which is around 11 percen. And we spend the incredible sum of … 3% on education and research.
- America’s defense budget went up by 59% (!) since 2001.
- 50% of the world’s military spending is done by the US.
- NATO members must spend at least 2 percent of their total of their GDP to defense.
Pretty insane.
(via Franz sources: yahoo.com & wikipedia (US Federal Spending) (German Federal Spending))
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