Democrats Vote To Give Trump Obscene $717 Billion Mílítary Budget

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numberwang said:

Hiku said:

Of course. But people naturally look at this while keeping in mind obvious things like the size difference between USA and other nations.
I don't have to point out that USA has 300 million+ inhabitants because that's common knowledge. As such their GDP will be higher than most.

Though on that note, China has significantly more people in their country than USA does. Do you think the cost of a US soldier is so much significantly higher, that USA's piece of that chart is several times that of China's? If so, how? 
And why would an American soldier cost more than a Chinese soldier?

The Chinese military for example has about twice active personnel compared to the US (2.2M vs 1.3M ) which is obscured by exchange rate magic comparisons.

Flag	Country	Active military	Reserve military	Paramilitary	Total	Per 1000 capita (total)	Per 1000 capita (active)
	China[34]	2,183,000	510,000	660,000	3,353,000	2.4	1.6
	India[71]	1,395,100	2,142,800	1,403,700	4,941,600	3.9	1.1
	United States[166]	1,347,300	865,050	14,850	2,227,200	6.9	4.2
	North Korea[115][Note 9]	1,190,000	6,300,000	189,000	7,679,000	305.7	47.4
	Russia[131][Note 11]	1,013,000	2,500,000	710,000	4,223,000	29.7	7.1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_military_and_paramilitary_personnel

The US would also outspend most following countries combined in social spending if you take a total Dollars exchange rate as a base of comparison.

China has more soldiers, so what? China has 4 times more population, is a bigger country and the one with the most neighboring countries (14, not counting any close countries across the sea). So it's only natural that the country has a larger military as it has more space to cover. India has a bigger army mostly because of it's huge population.

I didn't expect North Korean Army to be this big. Sitting between China, Russia and South Korea, I expected a very large one, but that's ludicrous in size