USA p. 2

 

GDP ~$15-trillion 2011; budget ~5% of GDP

 

Budget FY 2011 $744-billion. The baseline DOD budget is $549-billion.

 

Other national security spending not included in above:         

Department of Veterans Affairs	$125-billion
Department of Home Land Security	$56-billion
National Intelligence Program	$52-billion 2011[1]
Nuclear weapons	$10-billion
Coast Guard	$10-billion
Foreign military aid	$5-billion
	$258-billion

The national security total for the US is, therefore, US$1-trillion for 2011. In 1945, the peak year for US military spending in the Second World War, US spent $83-billion on defense. This equates to roughly $1-trillion in today’s money. Of course, the 1945 total represented almost 38% of GDP versus 6.7% today

Overseas contingency operations – not counting the $33-billion for the Afghanistan surge, is $159-billion. The main elements are:

            $89-billion operations

            $21-billion equipment repair/replacement

            $14-billion Afghanistan/Iraq training

 

The base Army Budget is $143-billion:

$59-billion personnel

$44-billion operations and maintenance

$21-billion procurement

$10-billion R & D

$5-billion military construction

 

The extra personnel to be added (22,000) are funded separately. $100-billion extra is for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, plus the major part of the $36-billion requested for the Afghanistan surge.

 

 

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