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The U.S. Still Spends More on Its Military Than over 144 Nations Combined (nationalpriorities.org)
3 points by celtoid on May 10, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



And yet military spending amounts to about 11-13% of the country's annual spending over the last few years [1].

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/hist08...


If you are interested in military spending per capita:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/military-spending-per-cap...


Thanks for this.



That article is from 2019. The OP is 2022. US spending has increased.


Chinese spending has increased too.


Global domination is really really expensive. Everyone who has tried it eventually throws in the towel.




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