And on a similar note, when comparing overall spending on the military, the perception of the size of the US military is inflated because in China and many othe

And on a similar note, when comparing overall spending on the military, the perception of the size of the US military is inflated because in China and many other countries there's a draft, so they pay their soldiers next to nothing while the US has to pay theirs a prevailing wage, which is somewhere around the highest in the world.