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Then why such strong attacks? I've always thought it was common knowledge that the US government spends trillions more then any other nation in the Millitary an

Then why such strong attacks? I've always thought it was common knowledge that the US government spends trillions more then any other nation in the Millitary and a large portion of that spending goes to R&D. I apologize and in the future I will present links.

anamax 17y ago
> I've always thought it was common knowledge that the US government spends trillions more then any other nation in the Military The link presented above, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_federations_by_military_expenditures#Stockholm_International_Peace_Research_Institute_figures_.282007.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_federatio... says that the US spends a bit over $650B (650E9) on its military. That link also says that the world total is under $1.5T (1.5E12) and that the NATO total (including the US) is a bit over $1T. So, if it's "common knowledge that the US government spends trillions more then any other nation in the Military", said common knowledge appears to be significantly wrong. Note that most US military spending is not R&D.