What does the USA spend on its military?
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http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/policy/securityspending/articles/defense_spending_since_2001/index.html
http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/policy/securityspending/articles/current_spending_vs_historical_highs/
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The total for 2008 was $696bn, of which $507bn was the base budget, and $189bn for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The base figure includes defense related spending by all govt agencies, including for example spending on nuclear weapons by the Dept of Energy.
The total estimate for 2009 is $706bn.
Check the source to get the details on what is covered by the numbers.
When looking at these charts and tables, be careful to check what the dollar values refer to. Some charts use a baseline of 2001 dollars, others use 2008 dollars.
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For the 2009 fiscal year, the base budget rose to US$515.4 billion. Adding emergency discretionary spending and supplemental spending brings the sum to US$651.2 billion.1 This does not include many military-related items that are outside of the Defense Department budget, such as nuclear weapons research, maintenance and production (about $9.3 billion, which is in the Department of Energy budget), Veterans Affairs (about $33.2 billion), interest on debt incurred in past wars, or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (which are largely funded through extra-budgetary supplements, about $170 billion in 2007). As of 2009, the United States government is spending about $1 trillion annually on defense-related purposes.
By title
The federally budgeted (see below) military expenditure of the United States Department of Defense for fiscal year 2009 is
Not included in the DoD budget is $23.4 billion to be spent by the Department of Energy to develop and maintain nuclear warheads.
By service
Programs spending more than $1 billion
The $84.1 billion procurement budget includes several programs with 2008 allocations of more than $1 billion.
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http://www.militarybudget.info/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
See flickr photo as well
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