Saturday, December 08, 2012

Trends in U.S. Military Spending

The Council on Foreign Relations posted Trends in U.S. Military Spending "The following charts present historical trends in U.S. military spending and analyze the forces that may drive it lower. These charts draw on data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). Both data sets include spending on overseas contingency operations as well as defense. This distinguishes them from data used in the U.S. budget, which separate defense spending from spending on overseas operations."

There are a lot of good charts here, the first one is telling:

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This one is perhaps too busy, but it's a summary of three charts that they described previously:

006 us military spending share of global total copy

And some perspective:

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Many more on the page.

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