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Originally Posted by kyleb350
I have a feeling this might eventually move to the politics section 
In short, it's related to how much we spend on our military which is more than all of the other counties in the world combined. That fact blew my mind. |
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.