Likely difficult to get proper data on that but two things make me doubtful that increased military expenditure would boost its economy: - it's likely that sig

Likely difficult to get proper data on that but two things make me doubtful that increased military expenditure would boost its economy: - it's likely that significant part of the spend would go to the US and hence not really help the German economy - recent European (and also US) military projects were pretty much a disaster (the A400M being a point in case). Not that this would be much different in other countries but it leaves you wondering how effective it really is to spend money on the military rather than proven ROI-positive investments such as education Edit: Also, it's not like Germany would really struggle economically ;-)