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5. Military spending has been much worse, but is getting better!

Tue Nov 17, 2020, 06:07 AM

Nov 2020

This is the last ten years:

In the 1960ies the cost was getting close to 10 percent of GDP. Since the Cold War it fell to between 3 and 5. No reason not to let it drop further - what about reaching down for that two percent limit NATO is being harassed about?

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?end=2019&locations=US&start=1960&view=chart

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