EU Military Expenditure

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Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Seriously?

Your going to try the old "instead of answering the question, throw a 275 page government document at them" trick?

Dude, I worked for a government agency for over 30 years. I've used that one myself a time or two. But it's not going to fly with me.

I have no idea - the #s are no doubt in the DOD budget reports for the years you are interested in and they are readily available.

The categories are not the best and as the CSIS noted, the DOD, the General Accounting Office, and the Congressional Budget Office all calculate their #s with different criteria.

I'm sure some gov. office has a synopsis of the cost of U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

News accounting (Bloomberg, Wash Post, Time) all over the map - from 1.6 trillion to 6 trillion. A lot of money, regardless.