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Originally Posted by schoy
Not true? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...y_expenditures
As a % of GDP, we're a little higher than almost all other countries, but not statistically out-of-whack. See Eritrea for example (21% of GDP spent on military).
One also has to account that our military is probably more spread out across the globe than every other country. |
He was probably talking about absolute expenditures, not expenditures as a percentage of GDP.