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Demeter

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14. America’s staggering defense budget, in charts

Wed Jan 9, 2013, 07:25 AM

Jan 2013

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/07/everything-chuck-hagel-needs-to-know-about-the-defense-budget-in-charts/

1) The United States spent 20 percent of the federal budget on defense in 2011.

3) The Pentagon’s budget mostly consists of personnel pay, weapons procurement, and operations.

4) The United States spent more on its military than the next 13 nations combined in 2011.

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