Article: Military spending: Boon or bane to the economy?

Article: How military spending influences national economy.
Military Thought;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... between military and non-military spending. Also there are some that ... direct relation between military spending and industry, particularly ... specifically, that a 1% rise in military spending before World War I brought in its wake 1 ...

Article: Canada's military spending higher than in WWII, but ...
Catholic New Times;  July 4, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... billion increase in military spending proposed by the ... NATO. 2. Current military spending is still above the post-World War II Canadian average ... fact, Canadian military spending remains above the post-World War II average. b ...

Article: Four trillion dollars and counting. (amount of money spent on ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;  November 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... dollars, than was spent on procurement for all of World War II. (Except where noted, all amounts are in ... debt. In short, one quarter to one third of all military spending since World War II has been devoted to nuclear weapons and their ...

Transcript: KYL CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE MILITARY SPENDING ...
Capitol Hill Press Releases;  February 13, 2001 ;     422 words ... ... February 13, 2001 Kyl Calls for Immediate Military Spending Increase Supplemental budget necessary to ... on national defense,`` said Kyl. ``Military spending is the lowest since World War II`` calculated either as a percentage ...

Article: Mugged again. (Congressional vote against cutting military ...
The Nation;  May 11, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... recession. Reductions in military spending over the past eighteen ... Contrast this with the end of World War II. Military spending was reduced by 90 percent ... the sole economic power; military spending is not nearly as big a ...

Article: National security at what price? The economic consequences of ...
American Economist;  September 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... years. The federal government's post World War II policy created a permanent military spending machine centered around the Department ... also pertinent to point out that since World War II, defense spending has averaged roughly ...

Article: Our views: ; Military spending has indeed risen; ...
Charleston Daily Mail;  February 11, 2008 ;     499 words ... ... arguments. Take military spending, for example. It ... wrote, "annual military spending, when adjusted for ... highest level since World War II." The proposed ... increased baseline military spending by 30 percent. Sounds ...