{"id":709365,"date":"2010-04-05T18:49:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T22:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/how-does-u-s-defense-spending-compare-other-countries-41856\/"},"modified":"2010-04-05T18:49:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T22:49:41","slug":"how-does-u-s-defense-spending-compare-with-other-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/709365","title":{"rendered":"How Does U.S. Defense Spending Compare with Other Countries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 04.05.10 11:00 AM posted by Conn Carroll<\/p>\n<p>\n&lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/defspend1.jpg&quot;&gt;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/defspend1.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;In 2008, the United States spent $607 billion on our military. Far more than any other country as British author &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.davidmccandless.com\/bio.htm&quot;&gt;David McCandless illustrates in the graphic to the right. But as McCandless goes on to show in the rest of this &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/2010\/apr\/01\/information-is-beautiful-military-spending&quot;&gt;Datablog post, focusing on spending totals alone doe not provide an accurate context to judge U.S. military spending by. The U.S. is a wealthy country with a larger Gross Domestic Product (GDP) than Japan, Germany, and China combined. McCandless compensated for this fact and you can see the result after the jump:&lt;spanid=&quot;more-30583&quot;&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<br \/>\n &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/defspendgdp.jpg&quot;&gt;<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/defspendgdp.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At 4% of GDP U.S. spending on defense is tied for 8th world wide. And in a &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/budgetchartbook\/Defense-Spending-on-the-Decline-Despite-War-on-Terror.aspx&quot;&gt;historical context it is far below average. Throughout the 1960s the U.S. spent almost 9% of GDP on defense and even during President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s defense build up, military spending topped out at 6%. Considering that the U.S. is actively fighting two wars, if anything this amount is too low. Heritage fellow Mackenzie Eaglen details how President Barack Obama&#8217;s most recent budget proposals fail to protect the core defense budget &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/beta.heritage.org\/Research\/Reports\/2010\/02\/President-Obamas-2011-Budget-How-Congress-Can-Reform-Defense-Spending-and-Address-Shortfalls&quot;&gt;here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/04\/05\/how-does-u-s-defense-spending-compare-with-other-countries\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/04\/05\/&#8230;her-countries\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 04.05.10 11:00 AM posted by Conn Carroll &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/defspend1.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;In 2008, the United States spent $607 billion on our military. Far more than any other country as British author &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.davidmccandless.com\/bio.htm&quot;&gt;David McCandless illustrates in the graphic to the right. But as McCandless goes on to show in the rest of this &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/2010\/apr\/01\/information-is-beautiful-military-spending&quot;&gt;Datablog post, focusing on spending totals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2748,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Yxn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}