On the world stage, cash rules almost everything. The countries with the largest military budgets reign supreme. Historically, the United States has been at the top of the list for a long time but ...

To put U.S. military spending in context, consider GDP and population shares relative to the rest of the world, as of 2013. The pie charts demonstrate that the United States accounts for a larger ...

"The aggregate military spending of the United States is larger than expenditures of all other countries combined. If we put together defense expenditures of all other countries in the world ...

European leaders are struggling to find the money and the political will to replace the bulk of the U.S. contribution to ...

In June 2023, Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska warned Congress that China's military was catching up to America's faster than previously imagined. The US intelligence community, the Republican senator ...

The United States continues to lead the world in military expenditures. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), U.S. defense spending reached $916 billion in ...

"And I want to say, 'let’s cut our military budget in half.' And we can do that. And I think we’ll be able to." Trump deserves our thanks and support in taking aim at US military spending in ...

US military spending amounted to US$ 801 billion in 2021, a drop of 1.4% from 2020, decreasing slightly from 3.7% of GDP in 2020 to 3.5% in 2021. World military spending continued to grow in 2021 ...

the Russian president backed a suggestion previously made by Trump to decrease military spending. He said: "We could come to an agreement with the United States, we are not against it. I think ...