Here's breakdown of large expenditures of the 2013 U. S. base Defense Budget
Operations Maintenance 209,672
Military Personnel 142,062
Procurement (weapons, food, ammunition...etc.) 98,823
R&D 69.408
The U. S. base defense budget is 531,792 dollars in 2013. The U. S. has a totally professional military, so American service members will make far more than service member from countries who have draftees. Most U. S. service members pay is much less than they would make in the private sector. The Operations and Maintenance section is the largest part of the U. S. budget; it contains war operations and world deployments cost. The U. S. military's Health care program Tricare is included in that section of the defense budget. The Tricare program includes active personnel, reservists, retirees, and their family members. The Tricare programs costs of over $50 billion dollars a year. The U.S. military has many family programs, but they cost no more than $10 billion dollars a year. The U. S. public does not want to restart the draft, so it costs much money to retain the services of U. S. service members in an open economic system.
U. S. weapons procurement programs have mismanaged for a long time. All four services have mismanaged new weapons programs over the last decade.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...-billion-on-canceled-programs-since-1995.html
Many defense experts think that Russian and China are underreporting their yearly defense spending. The Russia governments official stance is 50% of its taxes come from oil and natural gas revenue. The Russian oil only receives $22 to 24 dollars out of $100 dollars per barrel of crude sold. Ten of billions of dollars of undisclosed oil and natural gas tax revenue could be going into defense spending each yearly The Russian Western oil fields have the lowest production costs in the world, so the Russian oil companies are still make much money. China's a communist country, so under reporting of defense spending is not unexpected for such a regime.
Operations Maintenance 209,672
Military Personnel 142,062
Procurement (weapons, food, ammunition...etc.) 98,823
R&D 69.408
The U. S. base defense budget is 531,792 dollars in 2013. The U. S. has a totally professional military, so American service members will make far more than service member from countries who have draftees. Most U. S. service members pay is much less than they would make in the private sector. The Operations and Maintenance section is the largest part of the U. S. budget; it contains war operations and world deployments cost. The U. S. military's Health care program Tricare is included in that section of the defense budget. The Tricare program includes active personnel, reservists, retirees, and their family members. The Tricare programs costs of over $50 billion dollars a year. The U.S. military has many family programs, but they cost no more than $10 billion dollars a year. The U. S. public does not want to restart the draft, so it costs much money to retain the services of U. S. service members in an open economic system.
U. S. weapons procurement programs have mismanaged for a long time. All four services have mismanaged new weapons programs over the last decade.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...-billion-on-canceled-programs-since-1995.html
Many defense experts think that Russian and China are underreporting their yearly defense spending. The Russia governments official stance is 50% of its taxes come from oil and natural gas revenue. The Russian oil only receives $22 to 24 dollars out of $100 dollars per barrel of crude sold. Ten of billions of dollars of undisclosed oil and natural gas tax revenue could be going into defense spending each yearly The Russian Western oil fields have the lowest production costs in the world, so the Russian oil companies are still make much money. China's a communist country, so under reporting of defense spending is not unexpected for such a regime.
