Sentences with phrase «military expenditure»

One must be careful of comparing military expenditures, as the author does in item # 4.

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

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).

Disputes in the South and East China Seas, increasing military expenditures by India, and regional tensions with North Korea account for some of the growing demand for defence and security subsector ocean technologies.

In 2014, UK defence spending was at 2.2 % of GDP, according to the 2015 SIPRI Military Expenditure Database.

Data for military expenditures come from SIPRI.

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.»

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.

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.

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

[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».

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.

If it is not given in amounts more nearly comparable with our vast military expenditures, Communism will win the allegiance of the now neutral Asiatic nations.

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

Iran's military expenditure decreased by 30 percent between 2006 and 2015, with spending in 2015 standing at $ 10.3 billion.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Of all military spending, energy accounts for a small proportion, roughly less than 2 % of total military expenditures and 2 % of total US energy usage — but is 93 % of all US government energy consumption.In fact, the US military is the single biggest consumer of energy in the nation, at about 932 trillion BTU in 2009, resulting in 4 % of all US carbon emissions.

America's dependence on imported fossil fuels is widely acknowledged to be a source of many serious problems — from the enormous military expenditures required to keep supply lines open in dangerous parts of the world to the dangers of pollution and the threat of climate change.

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.

The early chip industry, like the two waves of innovation before, initially depended on military expenditures, Paul Ceruzzi, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution, writes in his book «A History of Modern Computing.»

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).

Every year, military expenditure in the world amounts to 780 billion dollars (UNDP 1998, 41) that of advertising stood at 1,000 billion dollars (UNDP, 1998, 70).

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.

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

Military expenditure, even if disproportionate and unrealistic, is to be supported.

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.

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.

The arms race is led by the two superpowers — the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. Together they account for 60 per cent of the world's military expenditures and 75 per cent of the world's arms exports.

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.