US Military Spending vs. The World, 2008

According to the pie chart, we can summarize out the following information about the military spending of US and compare it with the other countries in the world:

• US military spending almost half 48%, of the world’s total military spending.


• US military spending is more than the next 46 highest spending countries in the world combined.


• US military spending is 5.8 times more than China, 10.2 times more than Russia, and 98.6 times more than Iran.


• US military spending is almost 55 times the spending on the six “rogue” states whose spending amounts to around $13 billion, maximum.


• US spending is more than the combined spending of the next 45 countries.


• The United States and its strongest allies spend $1.1 trillion on their militaries combined, representing 72 percent of the world’s total.


• The six potential “enemies,” Russia, and China together account for about $205 billion or 29% of the US military budget.

The above information outline are from source web site. From those outline, we can figure out that the US government have become the greatest military spender in the world. But no one could sure if those money is worth enough to spend on that field. Also, because of the hugh amount spending only in one part of the government plan. I think the government should give out the detail plan on how the money use in the beginning of the year or the end of year. In this way, people could give out their opinion. Also, the government could work on the better way base on people's opinion.

(Source: http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/Spending.asp#InContextUSmilitarybudgetvsotherUSprioritieses.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/Spending.asp#InContextUSmilitarybudgetvsotherUSprioritieses.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/Spending.asp#InContextUSmilitarybudgetvsotherUSpriorities)