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Union Thug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-16-08 12:44 AM Original message |
Which countries of the world spend more as a percentage of GDP on the military than the US? |
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readmoreoften (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-16-08 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. North Korea? |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-16-08 12:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. Data from Wiki... FWIW |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-16-08 12:49 AM Response to Original message |
3. North Korea, Georgia, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-16-08 12:55 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Another study with slightly different numbers and Top 25 countries: |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-16-08 09:39 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. I think that list is out of whack now. Take Saudi Arabia, they make |
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Union Thug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-16-08 12:51 AM Response to Original message |
4. Thanks everyone! |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-16-08 12:58 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Interesting. Of the NATO countries, only Greece spends more |
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Union Thug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-16-08 09:32 AM Response to Reply #6 |
8. That's what I was thinking. The defense (which is what the guy was doing) of US spending using |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-16-08 01:02 AM Response to Original message |
7. The percentage of GDP seems meaningless if you look at that list. |
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