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- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+118I can't believe that we (USA) spend $329.6 billion on defense. That’s 199.75 youtubes.
- captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+96Only in number of troops. Hell, it's easy to get people to enlist when that's the only way they are going to get food.
- knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -7/+72US:
$329,600,000
The other 29 countries in the top 30:
$406,700,000
Impressive. - oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+39that's a good point. i wonder how long before google militarizes.
- ki1022, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34hey knightblade, you forgot a couple zeroes! ;-)
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+31heading up the charts, this month, with a (nuclear) bang, it's little kim and north korea in .. at number four.
- deanlowe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Why's everyone saying the US military is stretched thin when only 10% of its forces are in Iraq?
- ricree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22I imagine the fact that India is number 3 has something to do with that.
- itistoday, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20"I can't believe that North Korea beats Russia!"
Say that to their battalion of 22,000 tanks and 16,000 total nuclear warheads. I think after a point, it doesn't matter how many troops you have when a country can blow up their entire nuclear arsenal *on their own soil* and destroy the entire planet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_nuclear_weapons - salinemist, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20I've actually seen excellent articles arguing that our Navy pays for itself many times over by keeping safe and piracy free trade lanes for us and the rest of the world. We're half of the GDP on the planet and our Navy uses less than 1% of that.
We're not the global police, we're really bad ass mall cops. :-) - mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -9/+27Everytime I see list like these I think, "Well we do pay a bunch for our armed forces and the money could be better spent else where." But there is a smug little satisfaction knowing that you could quite possibly hand everybody in the world simultaneosly their own ass.
- Braxo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21I can't believe that Thailand has an aircraft carrier, what the hell does it look like? Do they even have fighter jets? ???
- lava, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19that's my favorite quote of the day
- pgup, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18The best military is a mobile military.
The US has 10 aircraft carriers, 27 cruisers, 30 frigates, and 49 destroyers; far outnumbering any other country with just aircraft carriers alone. - mzander09, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Wrong guys we actually spend $518.1 billion on our military take a look from our friends at the CIA world fact book.
https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2067rank.html - forgottenred, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18motivr: the war is over in Iraq, has been for some time. The problem has been occupation.
War = easy
Reconstruction = difficult
Without the need of occupation, the U.S. can win a war with ease. - mrgreen4242, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Hm, clearly the Indians have a much more efficient military. We should outsource that too.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14From now on, I will measure all monetary exchanges in "youtubes".
"Hey dad, I need a new graphics card. There's a nice one in the Fry's ad for just 9.1 x 10^-8 Youtubes."
"Why can't you be normal, and ask for a car?" - Avalontor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14who needs to be tanked up when big brother nation has 10 ACs
- bwjacket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I'm most worried about N. Korea's 3 frigates. Kim Jong-il and his brother Menta Lee-il take great pride in their frigates.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15The Aircraft carriers are what sets the American military apart. We have more of them, we have bigger ones, and we have better ones.
- patdunne, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17Canada is reducing its budget deficit. The US is busy creating debt that will continue for generations to come.
- ub3rgeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11someone was poking fun at Canada:
http://antims.com/photos/Picture%201.png - motivr, on 10/12/2007, -11/+20and is still struggling in Iraq
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Why wasn't aircraft # included? Air superiority = huge advantage in a war.
China can have all the foot soldiers they want but that doesn't mean anything when your battalion convoy is being carpet bombed by something you can't even see. - ricree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9No kidding. If that list is accurate, then we have more aircraft carriers than everyone else put together. That can kind of cost a lot.
- EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10If only there were a way people could vote on what stories they like...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Conscription does wonders for the size of your standing army. Just ask Italy.
- ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Russia's a huge stretch of land with water on two sides, one side which is ice almost 12 months out of the year. What does Russia need more, AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, or an army of tanks?
- motivr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Republic of China is Taiwan
- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Don't forget our cruisers too.
- reflex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8As a Canadian, I can cheerfully comment that the numbers for Canada are complete rubbish -- apparently the Canadians fighting in Afghanistan aren't real, nor do we have any Leopard C2 tanks. Oh, and someone sank our destroyers and frigates while we weren't looking.
- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12The reason I assume that the U.S. spends so much more would have to do with the fact about the size of its navy and 10 Aircraft Carriers. It also doesn't tell us how many Subs are currently active. So that might be another thing. Also I'd be willing to bet the Russian tanks are mostly P.O.S.
- mc7winkie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Iraq is different from any other major conflict. If it was a direct conflict where the two armies actually squared off then you know that the U.S.A. could easaily come out on top of everybody on that list.
- noeljohnhoward, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11poor UK, biggest power in the world and now there right after mexico
- jeebus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9The Canadian info isn't right at all. There are at least a couple thousand troops in Afghanistan at this very moment.
- beguiledfoil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Gone, I invaded this morning!
- 4answer2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8From http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/thailand/chakri-naruebet.htm and http://www.naval-technology.com/
The major addition to the Royal Thai Fleet is the Chakri Naruebet (which means "The Great of the Chakri Dynasty"), built by Bazan-Ferrol of Spain, and delivered to the RTN in 1997, which included seven AV-8S and two TAV-8S Matador (Harrier) STOL attack aircraft and six newly-built S-70B-7 Seahawk multi-mission helicopters. Because of the ships capabilities and size it the most auspicious ship of the Royal Thai Navy. But the lack of funding has restricted its operations and as a result, it was not deployed to support the UN mission in East Timor. This Offshore Patrol Helicopter Carrier (OHPC) intends to undertake a wide range of missions such as disaster relief, environment protection, amphibious operations, patrolling of territorial waters and control of local air space, Search And Rescue coordination and Exclusive Economic Zone surveillance. Secondary role is air support for all maritime operations.
HTMS Chakri Naruebet is of a similar design to that of the Spanish carrier Principe de Asturias, it is fitted with a 12 degree ski jump to enable the use of Harrier-style aircraft. The carrier has a full-load displacement of 11486 tons. Its overall length is 182.6m; flight-deck waterline beam 22.5m, and full-load draught 6.2m. U.S. Navy standards of subdivision were followed, with 13 watertight bulkheads and three independent fire zones. Twin rudders provide good maneuverability. The machinery is located in two compartments, and includes two GE LM-2500 gas turbines, two Bazan-MTU 16 1163 TAB83 diesel engines and two twin-reduction gearboxes. Variable-pitch propellers are fitted.
Pic:
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/chakrinaruebet/images/thai111.jpg - drakethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Ya Jeebus is right, vandalism on wikipedia, who would of thought.
- dejb, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9"We're half of the GDP on the planet "
Actually 'you' are 28% or 20% of the world GDP (depending on if you use nominal or PPP). Check out the wiki pages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29
And what is more I believe the US economy is subsidized by the rest of the world via
- Other countries purchasing US bonds (debt)
- Use of the US dollar as a trading currency
- Advantageous trade terms (assisted by armed forces)
- ki1022, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12I doubt that Canada has ZERO active troops....
- schlurp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Interesting, Pakistan is #6 with 1 million soldiers on just 0.8% of the US defense budget.
- halosniper7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7dang! 21,000 tanks! most left from the cold war???
- ohhhL3ThaL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This forgot to list the number of monkies the people in the Indies use.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The traditional strength of the Soviet/Russian army has always been their tanks. After going toe-to-toe with Hitlers Panzers from 41-45, they learned a few tricks.
Soviet tanks were very close to American tanks up until the M1 Abrams was fielded.
You'll find Soviet built tanks all over the world. Tanks and aircraft were the Soviet way of diplomacy and raising hard currency.
Russians are also big believers in reserves. They probably have an army group equilivent of old T-62/72s warehoused for the day when the Germans come back for more. - ZenMojo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7This is pretty eye-opening stuff. I had no idea we had almost 3,000,000 soldiers running around.
- Roger, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Wow, the US is really serious about peace.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5it says as of 2002 unless you wish to update the entire list for us on the wiki
- bmson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@pmr07
They closed the base last month.
Not a single soldier here.
But we have a lot of friends, that will help us if there is a need.
But Iceland is not a big target so we are probably the safest place on earth.
Well... Faroe Islands are maybe the safest and we in 2nd :P
Extra info...
Iceland is the only country that has defeated the British "Royal" Army.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_war hehe :P - pgup, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13@motivr
Iraq has, been, and always will be a lost cause
/flamesuit -
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