Reading Chalmers Johnson is a sobering experience, not for the faint-of-heart. In this recent article he reals off some unimaginable yet actual numbers about the military expenditures in the U.S.
Why the Debt Crisis Is Now the Greatest Threat to the American Republic
The Department of Defense's planned expenditures for fiscal year 2008 are larger than all other nations' military budgets combined. The supplementary budget to pay for the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, not part of the official defense budget, is itself larger than the combined military budgets of Russia and China. Defense-related spending for fiscal 2008 will exceed $1 trillion for the first time in history. The United States has become the largest single salesman of arms and munitions to other nations on Earth. Leaving out of account President Bush's two on-going wars, defense spending has doubled since the mid-1990s. The defense budget for fiscal 2008 is the largest since World War II.
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