For some more perspective... Finland's military GDP spending is around 4%, very close to America's military GDP spending, but the two countries have largely di

For some more perspective... Finland's military GDP spending is around 4%, very close to America's military GDP spending, but the two countries have largely different GDPs of course. That's the fair way to compare things though. Also a very large portion of the military budget goes to the salary's of our military employees as well as R&D. We wouldn't have the internet if it wasn't for ARPA. And finally, Finland isn't a superpower.