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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread
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To: Bilow who wrote (15896)9/10/2001 7:26:48 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 59480
 
In fact, I'd put my money on Brazil to beat North Korea.

If you give both countries 10 years to prepare for a fight in a neutral area I agree. Or if you have the North Korean army try to fight through the Amazon I would also agree. But if you place Brazil's army and air force in South Korea and make them have to fight off an invasion from the North without any help from the US or the armed forces of South Korea or any other country and I think the Brasil would lose. Brazil has more people and more money and thus more potential. North Korea on the other hand basically is on permanent war footing in the sense that so much of its resources go to the army. North Korea is focused on supporting a large military, Brazil puts a lot less emphasis in this area.

The primary force keeping military expenditures relatively high (very very high for peacetime) is the military industrial complex.

The primary reason while they have been relatively low (relative to the 80s in terms of real dollars, or even more so relative to most of the cold war as a % of GDP) is because all the spending in the 80s gave us lots of new equipment, which is just now starting to get old. If we are going to cut back anymore then we have to cut back our goals and plans for our military rather then just cutting spending and thinking we can continue to do what we have been doing.

Tim
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