The USA with its massive spending budget, has long been the principal  determinant of the current world trend, often accounting for close to half of all the  world's military expenditure. The effects of global financial crisis and the post-Iraq /Afghanistan military operations have seen a decline in its spending, now  accounting for ...
For FY 2017, President Obama proposed the base budget of $523.9 billion,  which includes an increase of $2.2 billion over the FY 2016 enacted budget of  $521.7 billion. For the period 2010-14, SIPRI found that the United States was the  world's biggest exporter of major arms, accounting for 31 percent of global shares , ...
Nov 20, 2014 ... innovation system that in turn has supported U.S. global competitive advantage.  Through the Cold War era, defense R&D dominated the U.S. federal R&D budget . Thereafter its share has fallen below 50 percent of the total federal R&D  obligations only a few times. In 1960, defense research accounted for ...
Jul 1, 1994 ... The authors of this internal government report took a Manichaean view of  America's rivalry with the Soviet Union, espoused a permanent role for the United  States as world policeman, and envisioned U.S. military expenditures amounting  to perhaps 20 percent of GNP.12 But congressional acceptance of ...
Justin Johnson specialized in defense budgets for The Heritage Foundation's  Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy. Copied. Select a Section  1/0. Toggle open close. Determining how much the United States should spend  on national security is a challenging task. If the U.S. spends too little on national ...
The United States accounted for 26 percent of worldwide military spending during the Cold War, but now accounts for 41 percent.