US defence budget will equal rest of world combined "within 12 months"

[NVMojo]

Defence expenditure in the US will equal that of the rest of the world combined within 12 months, making it "increasingly pressing" for European contractors to develop a "closer association" with the US, corporate finance group PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) says.

Its report - 'The Defence Industry in the 21st Century' by PwC's global aerospace and defence leader Richard Hooke - adds that "the US is in the driving seat", raising the prospect of a future scenario in which it could "dominate the supply of the world's arms completely".

The US defence budget reached US$417.4 billion in 2003 - 46 per cent of the global total.

Less than two per cent of the US defence budget is spent outside its home market, the report notes, and of this around one per cent goes to UK contractors.

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[whosinpower]

1. And they wonder why

There is no money for social security, medicaid etc. It is being spent on guns, death and killing machines....all in the name of defense.

[Double T]

2. The US Has Its Wars And Weapons..........

.... Meanwhile The Rest Of The Country Is Crumbling And Falling Apart.

[leesa]

3. And we're getting our asses kicked by two entirely disarmed

countries without military forces. WooHoo! We're number 1!