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Re:U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, au... by danohu on Friday August 19, 2016 @02:39PM (#12322366)
Even as a percentage of GDP, US military spending is maybe 20th-highest in the world[0]. The countries spending more tend to be some combination of:

- at war, or civil war (ukraine, south sudan, iraq)

- with historical conflict with larger neighbours, and reaso to worry about it breaking out again (Pakistan, Israel)

- sitting on enough oil that GDP gets distorted anyway (saudi arabia, Azerbaijan

So yes, US military spending is way out of proportion to the rest of the world.

[0] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?year_h...

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