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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (545411)1/22/2010 1:20:29 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1576882
 
We do completly dominate military spending, but not quite to the extent show on that chart. China has all sorts of ways money goes to the military without showing up in their defense budget, they even have companies owned by the military. Also any country with a draft, devotes an important resource, its people, to the military without accounting for the true cost of that person's labor. Then in very poor conflict ridden countries the military may just take what it wants without much in the way of formal budgets.

Instead of about a half, the US's portion of the world's resources devoted to the military might be more like a third or a bit more. While our GDP is between a fifth and a fourth.
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