24 January, 2013

Graph showing military spending as % of GDP is surprising....

Our Imperial Footprint:
Defense_Spending
Jill Lepore sizes it up:
The United States spends more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined. Between 1998 and 2011, military spending doubled, reaching more than seven hundred billion dollars a year—more, in adjusted dollars, than at any time since the Allies were fighting the Axis.
(Chart from usgovernmentspending.com)