Top military spenders in 2014

[AUz]

This is utterly pathetic by our leaders.

We spend far too little on military.

We need to spend 5% of GDP on military.

We need military hawks in power otherwise we will weaken as a military power.

Military spending should be given first priority.

Calm down dude.

"Hawks" will destroy china even without it taking off...

Why do you need "hawks"? Take Dick Chenney from U.S

 

[Hypersonicmissiles]

your govt makes the policies according to the requirement which they think's is necessary....you must accept it as the govt. always knows better where to spend and how much to spend.



Nope.....our navy is mostly using indigenous warships and our army is also opting that way....though i will agree with you about some components are imported due to the time which they takes to be developed indigenously.

All your 'indigenous' weapons use imported components.

Even we rely on foreign engines but you rely on pretty much every component on foreign suppliers.

That means you are not self-sufficient.

China is far more self-sufficient than India.

 

[AUz]

600 billion is in USD term while here 350 billion is in GBP.

ohhh the data is in GBP..now I get it.

 

[Hypersonicmissiles]

Calm down dude.

"Hawks" will destroy china even without it taking off...

Why do you need "hawks"? Take Dick Chenney from U.S

I wish we had our own Dick Cheney.

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

As always, % 30 - 25 of KSA's defense & security budget will go back by the end of the year to the Cabinet.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

Chinese expenditure doesn't include branches of the military such as the second artillery.
Also, the current amount of 6% increase is fine, China is not out to fight a war. Health care and education is far more important.

 

[northeast]

Chinese expenditure doesn't include branches of the military such as the second artillery.
Also, the current amount of 6% increase is fine, China is not out to fight a war. Health care and education is far more important.

Nah，6% is far from enough.With this rate，we have no chance to get diaoyudao and SCS islands back.What's more worse is the militant spirit of chinese would fade soon，we would be a wealthy but patheticly weak country like shameless Song dynasty.

 

[DejanSRB]

This is utterly pathetic by our leaders.

We spend far too little on military.

We need to spend 5% of GDP on military.

We need military hawks in power otherwise we will weaken as a military power.

Military spending should be given first priority.

Nope mate,no,no and no.
Dont make a USSR fault and go in arms race with bigger economy.
China is biggest owner of US debt along with Japan.
Your economy is more fresh then US.7.7 % vs 3.2 economic growth.Maybe you dont like Xi Jinping but I personnaly think he is great leader of China.China should dont give a damn about Military,and they should pass to Russia military game with US.
It is very important to battle US on two fronts with two rivals.You just need to improve your economics on all aspects,GDP,GDP (PPP),GDP nominal,avarage salaries....and you will face prosperity like no one before.
What kind of adventage US have with military adventage over China?When they are absolutely depends on SINO-US economic ties.US will not risk war in next 30-20 years with China becouse it wil be suicide for them.

 

[northeast]

Nope mate,no,no and no.
Dont make a USSR fault and go in arms race with bigger economy.
China is biggest owner of US debt along with Japan.
Your economy is more fresh then US.7.7 % vs 3.2 economic growth.Maybe you dont like Xi Jinping but I personnaly think he is great leader of China.China should dont give a damn about Military,and they should pass to Russia military game with US.
It is very important to battle US on two fronts with two rivals.You just need to improve your economics on all aspects,GDP,GDP (PPP),GDP nominal,avarage salaries....and you will face prosperity like no one before.
What kind of adventage US have with military adventage over China?When they are absolutely depends on SINO-US economic ties.US will not risk war in next 30-20 years with China becouse it wil be suicide for them.

don't know what's your point and your words don't make sense.Economy is just economy.Japan once had 70% of the GDP of USA，yet it's always a puppet of USA.Only military is the true power of a country.

 

[DejanSRB]

don't know what's your point and your words don't make sense.Economy is just economy.Japan once had 70% of the GDP of USA，yet it's always a puppet of USA.Only military is the true power of a country.

Military only true power of a country???Absolutely wrong.
USSR has military superiority over USA but USSR collapsed and USA continue to exist as lone superpower.
Rapid and flexible economy is main weapon of China.
And it make no sense to compare Japan and China.Japan is dominated by US since '45.Military domination is tool of 20 century.
Main tools of 21 century will be energetic and economy domination.

 

[northeast]

Military only true power of a country???Absolutely wrong.
USSR has military superiority over USA but USSR collapsed and USA continue to exist as lone superpower.
Rapid and flexible economy is main weapon of China.
And it make no sense to compare Japan and China.Japan is dominated by US since '45.Military domination is tool of 20 century.
Main tools of 21 century will be energetic and economy domination.

Be realistic，Economy seldomly can be use as a weapon，It is a tool at most，How many times is the GDP of USA bigger than North Korea ，Iran and Iraq？Thousands of Times！yet USA can't make any concession from them without threating to use military method or really use it.
USSR collapsed because it's a madeup country from the beginning，the mighty tsars gethered hundreds of different peoples to one country.They are so different，you can't tell any similarity between mongols，Tartars and Ukrainians.It would collapse when Russia is weak.At the other side，even the regime of korea，taiwan and many other countries has fallen，they are dtill in one piece.
OMG，You know you are really ignorant and childish.

 

[Lux de Veritas]

Singapore has among the highest military expenditure in the whole world, just behind UAE, USA and Israel and Singaporeans -- hate it very very much.

The exorbitant spending does not benefit normal Singaporeans but politicians and the arm forces, many of them receiving very high salary. Singaporeans has been increasingly hating our arm forces. Things were not like this in the past. Then, we were very much more patriotic and willing to sacrifice for our countries.

Things start changing when we see our government in widening the income gap, aka stealing from people to enrich themselves, and we begin to wonder what and who are we protecting.

Also the over representation of upper-class in the military with privileges brought forth a lot of resentment. In our army, the favor of upper class and their representation in officer corps is a main reason that it goes decadence. The soldiers can see that their officers are weak and do not merit respect. Many do not have honorable personalities and soldiers despise them.

There are incidences the rich dodge draft for years overseas and got welcome back with red carpet. The poor who went few days AWOLS get into military prison (more hell than civilian jail, I nearly went to military prison for things like insubordination).

We do not know whether we will fight when there is a war. FYI I served 2.5 years.

The inequality, privileges of the upper class, are always the main reason that wreck the spirit on military.

 

[Hypersonicmissiles]

Military only true power of a country???Absolutely wrong.
USSR has military superiority over USA but USSR collapsed and USA continue to exist as lone superpower.
Rapid and flexible economy is main weapon of China.
And it make no sense to compare Japan and China.Japan is dominated by US since '45.Military domination is tool of 20 century.
Main tools of 21 century will be energetic and economy domination.

Japan was a much bigger economy than the USSR.
USSR had a much stronger military than Japan.

USSR was considered the superpower while Japan was not a superpower.

Military power determined whether a country was a superpower or not.

Military power is the hardest power to acquire. To be a military power you need money and technology. That means you must have a strong economy and be technologically advanced. You need money to develop technologically advanced weapons and buy them in sufficient numbers.

Economic power + Technological power = Military power.

 

[+4vsgorillas-Apebane]

Japan was a much bigger economy than the USSR.
USSR had a much stronger military than Japan.

USSR was considered the superpower while Japan was not a superpower.

Military power determined whether a country was a superpower or not.

Military power is the hardest power to acquire. To be a military power you need money and technology. That means you must have a strong economy and be technologically advanced. You need money to develop technologically advanced weapons and buy them in sufficient numbers.

Economic power + Technological power = Military power.

The current generation of Chinese are extremely ill suited to fight a war. With the one child policy, the death of any single soldier will be the death blow to their family line. I dont doubt the fighting capabilities of today's Chinese soldiers but it must weigh heavily on every single one the hardship to their families should they die in war.

With the relaxation of the one child policy and the economic gains in the future, future generations will have much more resources at hand to fight a war as well as siblings to continue the family name should they die.
For now, just hold the enemy at bay and stall - Deng Xiao Pings doctrine is still relevant. The next generation of Chinese can fight the world should they want to.

 

[Hypersonicmissiles]

The current generation of Chinese are extremely ill suited to fight a war. With the one child policy, the death of any single soldier will be the death blow to their family line. I dont doubt the fighting capabilities of today's Chinese soldiers but it must weigh heavily on every single one the hardship to their families should they die in war.

With the relaxation of the one child policy and the economic gains in the future, future generations will have much more resources at hand to fight a war as well as siblings to continue the family name should they die.
For now, just hold the enemy at bay and stall - Deng Xiao Pings doctrine is still relevant. The next generation of Chinese can fight the world should they want to.

If you don't want to fight a war then you must have sufficient military deterrence.

To have sufficient deterrence you need a lot of money to build those advanced weapons and in great numbers.

If you have a weak military, others will challenge you and be forced to actually fight.