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To: TimF who wrote (328616)3/12/2007 4:57:16 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574737
 
re: I'm not just guessing. I don't have the exact numbers for overseas sales of American weapons, but I know they are significantly less than weapon sales from American companies to the US military. The difference is enough that when you combine the drop in % of GDP for the military over the course of, and since the end of, the cold war, there isn't anyway that the military industrial complex can be bigger in % of GDP terms.

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To: TimF who wrote (328616)3/12/2007 5:11:30 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574737
 
Here is a chart of the top defense contractors going back to 1977. Looks like they are growing revenue, eh?

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