China is now world No. 2 arms spender

[Guest Tony n Terrific]

The US is #1 and spends over 7 times more then China on arms.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090608/ap_on_...arms_spending_1

[Zhou Zhou]

The US is #1 and spends over 7 times more then China on arms.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090608/ap_on_...arms_spending_1

 

It would a much higher amount if you included the covert military budget of the US. What would be the amount of the military budget if the US had borders with 15 other countries and 4 of them being nuclear powers?

[Yan and Tom]

This article uses the terms "arms spending" and "military spending" somewhat interchangably. This, I think, can be misleading. China has the largest standing army in the world, yet if they spend one seventh the amount we do on military overall, a significantly higher percentage of their spending must go to training and personnel, not on arms.

 

According to this wikipedia entry, they do have a lot of submarines.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_count...of_armed_forces

[Zhou Zhou]

They kicked ass in 1950 with obsolete weapons...the Tiger is ful grown now.

[Guest ShaQuaNew]

They kicked ass in 1950 with obsolete weapons...the Tiger is ful grown now.

 

 

Everyone still disputes whether size really matters, or if it's the motion of the ocean:

 

http://i44.tinypic.com/1zodj14.jpg

[Guest Tony n Terrific]

They kicked ass in 1950 with obsolete weapons...the Tiger is ful grown now.

 

 

Everyone still disputes whether size really matters, or if it's the motion of the ocean:

 

http://i44.tinypic.com/1zodj14.jpg

The US is a maritime power. Our whole economy is based on trade. Ocean trade. 70% off the worlds goods are moved on water. Who controls the worlds oceans? The US Navy. The US is very happy to see China have a large land army. More the better. This army is for defense. Naval battle groups are expensive to build. If you are tying up your miltary budget on a continental defense there is very little money for a Naval Battle goup. What land power is a threat to the US? Canada or Mexico. Neither.

[NewDay2006]

They kicked ass in 1950 with obsolete weapons...the Tiger is ful grown now.

 

 

Everyone still disputes whether size really matters, or if it's the motion of the ocean:

 

http://i44.tinypic.com/1zodj14.jpg

The motion is important, but size is awesome in most any setting.

 

I remember a movie long time ago, and I don't remember anything about the movie except it involved the Chinese Army and they ruushed a hill with a HUGE mass of soldiers, you might get a lot of them, even with a "gatlin" ... but when they just keep coming......

 

Still, they arn't the Japanese, not meaning any disrespect to the Chinese or the latter, but in World War II we dropped the bomb because of the tenacity of the Japanese and they would have fought to the last man without giving up.

 

Still, think of all the good if we could just stop spending so much darn money on weapons of distruction and sing cum ba ya together ... I know it would never happen, but I can dream, can't I ??