Sentences with phrase «us military expenditure»

Dependence on oil from unstable regions may necessitate military expenditures to ameliorate risk.

So, 50 billion out of 1 trilion is not huge, 5 %, but that is only through Lend Lease, not military expenditures and, of course, not post-war Marshal Plan costs.

This downward trend continues and what is more distressing is that the First world countries confirm that they have increased their military expenditure.

In February 1792, British Prime Minister Pitt justified the reduction of military expenditures and held out hope for more reductions to come by declaring: «Unquestionably there never was a time in the history of this country when from the situation of Europe we might more reasonably expect fifteen years of peace than at the present moment.

For instance, organizations trying to assist Haitian and Salvadoran refugees to avoid repatriation, or organizations urging boycott of banks doing business with South Africa, or organizations counseling young people not to register for the draft, or organizations protesting increased military expenditures, or organizations demonstrating against nuclear power or against mineral exploration in wilderness areas, are all in danger of losing their tax exemptions for violating «public policy.»

If these figures loom large, recall that our military expenditures are greater by still another factor of ten (defense budget for 1960 is $ 41 billion).

Yet the terrific economic drain of military expenditures, pre-empting about three fourths of all money paid for taxes, the psychological strains of conscription of youth for military service, and the perils to democracy of a militarized public mind require unremitting effort to lift the armaments burden.

Under his policy of «low intensity conflict», designed to avoid another Vietnam-esque debacle, the US dramatically increased military expenditures in order to fund anti-government rebels in Nicaragua, Angola, Ethiopia, Cambodia, and Afghanistan (including Bin Laden).

The same question is then applied to other matters: to U.S. support of Israel; to U.S. opposition to the election of Hamas in Palestine; to the history of U.S. involvement in Iran over the past century; to the invasion and reconstitution of Afghanistan; to the depiction of events in the Middle East by U.S. media; and to the military expenditures of the U.S. government.

Countries in Europe, in contrast, which he leaned on U.S. military protection via NATO in the early days after WWII, and which lacked the resources to participate more directly in the Cold War, normalized a lower level of military expenditure, and refrained from making nearly as great an economic commitment to fight wars in the Afghanistan and Iraq as the U.S. did as a leader of those coalitions.

The lifting of EU (and some US sanctions) in January 2016 is expected to boost the Iranian economy and may lead to a rise in military expenditure.

This needs an edit - «You can see that Iran expends 2.5 % of its GDP with military expenditure (less than the global average of 2.3 %)» 2.5 % is more than 2.3 %, so either the numbers were incorrectly typed, or «less» needs to be changed to «more.»

Military expenditure was a hot subject in 2017 when Donald Trump criticized NATO countries (other than US) for not «paying a fair share»:

But a separate bill is being proposed to make a similar pledge in defence, one that makes sure we maintain Nato's target of two per cent of GDP spent annually on military expenditure.

US clearly dominates the world when it comes to military expenditure, both in % of GDP and nominal value.

You can see that Iran expends 2.5 % of its GDP with military expenditure (just a bit more than the global average of 2.3 %), and the specific value (in 2015 US$) is US$ 10.265 billion.

This answer indicates that West European countries tend to have low military expenditure also because:

According to this report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, «Trends in World Military Expenditure, 2015»:

There seems to be a discrepancy between Western democracies (US vs. Western Europe) when it comes to military expenditures.

Japan does have its own military, it's number 8 in the world by military expenditure, number 18 by the number of active military personnel.

The military is well trained and better armed due to Burundi having the highest military expenditure of any country in the East African region and support from the US and Belgium; over 2.39 % of Burundi's 2012 Gross Domestic Product.

Having seized power through the electoral college used to elect the President of the United States, Donald Trump now intends to redeploy federal power away from civilian to military expenditures, to dismantle health care and other forms of income support, and to advance a neoliberal environment fostering business activity and investment.

This article dives into details by showing graphs related to military expenditures of NATO countries reported to their GDP and confirms what Donald Trumps has emphasized:

Military expenditure percentages are currently lower in the EU than in US.

Increasing military expenditure percent of GDP would make US less like EU.

[3] Reid gained considerable praise for the review; with some commentators going so far as to describe his success in cutting military expenditure at the same time as winning over the defence chiefs as «brilliant».

According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), worldwide military expenditures have been growing annually for the past 15 years, and between 15 and 20 major armed conflicts — yes, wars — are in progress as you read this.

Data for military expenditures come from SIPRI.

However, I don't know of any research that has established a direct link between education expenditures and military expenditures within countries.

Not all of the 110 countries with education spending data had military expenditure figures.

Despite expanding the data collection years to 2011 and 2012, Greece and Canada still had incomplete information in the UIS database and they were the two OECD countries for which I used the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute's (SIPRI) military expenditure database to create estimates.

I used SIPRI's 2014 Military Expenditure Database.

However, SIPRI provides estimates for military expenditures for both China and Russia for 2013.

I used the total amount of education spending at the primary and secondary education levels and divided that into the total amount of military expenditures.

However, because SIPRI's analysis of military expenditure using constant USD relied on 2011 dollars, I had to adjust for inflation for countries with education spending data from 2011 or 2012.

This version allowed me to use their current USD tab to obtain military expenditure data for all countries with education expenditures and enrollments from 2013 — which was the most current year represented in the database.

The first step in estimating education spending was to create an education spending to military spending ratio for primary and secondary grade spans in the analysis.vi To create the ratios, I looked at all the countries that had data for education spending for primary and secondary education and military expenditure figures.

If you include the true ecological and economic costs of U.S. energy policy (including military expenditures) in the fossil fuel bill, that is even more obvious:

Fossil fuel interests are using their clout at the White House and in Congress to sabotage every renewable energy program that comes along, while make sure massive government subsidies, on the order of $ 100 billion a year when you count it all up, continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for example).

As an old man, it has become extremely clear to me that Americans are perfectly willing (with lots of complaining) to support military expenditures.

It's time for a candidate to sack up and champion the diversion of resources from wasteful military expenditures to much needed domestic infrastructure in order to combat the true challenges of the 21st century.

It seems to have been wealthy Saudis... Factor in the costs of the war in Iraq and massive military expenditures to protect oil supplies and windmills look cheap at twice the price.

So, cutting US military expenditure roughly in half would mean 21.4 % of global spending would be from the US — $ 3.424 billion.

Even more dramatic are the routine U.S. military expenditures to protect access to Middle Eastern oil, which were calculated by analysts at the Rand Corporation before the most recent Iraq war to fall between $ 30 billion and $ 60 billion a year, while the oil imported from the region was worth only $ 20 billion.

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Not exact matches

World Military and Social Expenditures 1983: An Annual Report on World Priorities.

Yet when we are confronted with the need to apply the social teachings of the prophets to a particular measure before Congress in our time — for example, to expenditures for military defense, or a farm bill, or fair employment practices — the directives are less clear.

In this era, military security became our highest priority, our greatest expenditure, and our scarcest commodity.

Recognized for superior performance by leading independent charity oversight groups, 92 percent of Operation Homefront's expenditures go directly to programs that provide support to our military families.

Civil defence and current expenditure on previous military activities — such as veterans» benefits, demobilization and weapon destruction — are excluded.