President Trump has announced plans to increase the US defense budget in 2018 by $54 billion dollars in order to "rebuild the depleted military of the United States of America at a time we most need it".
Some have said that this figure is misleading and the actual increase is ‘only’ $18 billion.
Whatever the final amount, the increase will take the US even further ahead of the rest of the world in terms of outright military spending.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, in 2015 US defense spending outstripped that of China, Russia, UK, France, Japan, Saudi Arabia and India combined.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Some have said that this figure is misleading and the actual increase is ‘only’ $18 billion.
Whatever the final amount, the increase will take the US even further ahead of the rest of the world in terms of outright military spending.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, in 2015 US defense spending outstripped that of China, Russia, UK, France, Japan, Saudi Arabia and India combined.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017...al&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
