Born Again Redneck's Daily Duh!: Who's Spending What on the Military?

Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Who's Spending What on the Military?

Here's a map of the world showing how much each country spends on the military as a percentage of its GDP. Overall the world average is 2% but clearly there's quite a bit of variation. The Arabian peninsula seems to be a hot spot with most countries there spending 10%+ of their GDP.
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Among first-world powers China spends 4.3% followed by the US at 4.06% and Russia at 3.9%.

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From Fred Thompson's blog, Fred08 on November 26th, 2007:

More Praise for Fred’s Tax Relief Plan - Patrick Joubert Conlon at Born Again Redneck called the plan, “music to a businessman’s ears.”

C.D. Jewell,

Liberalstein,

"This blog interested me first because of the title. But the quality of Patrick Joubert Conlon's writing has kept me coming back. His style is not presumptuous or pompous or condescending; it's plain and simple. Good old American English. Which is funny because Mr. Conlon was born and lived in South Africa for his first twenty one years and after that spent eight years in England before finding his home here in the U. S. His blog provides a rare outsider/insider perspective on the U. S. of A. He's been linked to by CNN on a couple of occasions and one of his posts was cited by the official Fred08 website. He does a lot of politics but also some lighter fare as well. He frequently posts spectacular photos taken on his Oregon farm."