{"id":146128,"date":"2015-04-21T14:16:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/target\/us-military-spending-still-up-45-over-pre-911-levels-more-than-next-7-countries-combined\/"},"modified":"2015-04-21T14:16:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:16:25","slug":"us-military-spending-still-up-45-over-pre-911-levels-more-than-next-7-countries-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/us-military-spending-still-up-45-over-pre-911-levels-more-than-next-7-countries-combined\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military Spending Still Up 45% Over Pre-9\/11 Levels; More Than Next 7 Countries Combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a decline in military spending since 2010, U.S. defense expenditures are still 45 percent higher than they were before the 9\/11 terror attacks put the country on a seemingly permanent war footing.<\/p>\n<p>And despite massive regional buildups spurred by conflict in the Ukraine and the Middle East, the U.S. spends more on its military than the next seven top-spending countries combined, according to new figures <a href=\"http:\/\/books.sipri.org\/files\/FS\/SIPRIFS1504.pdf\">compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute<\/a> (SIPRI).<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s nearly three times as much as China, and more than seven times as much as Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is now the fourth-biggest military spender on the globe, which in its case means spending nearly $80 billion last year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabianbusiness.com\/saudi-defence-spending-rises-16bn-in-five-years-553642.html\">buying weapons<\/a>, mostly from the U.S., and most notably including fistfuls of F-15 fighters and top-of-the-line attack helicopters.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/04\/20\/u-s-military-still-spending-45-911-much-next-7-top-spending-countries-combined\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a decline in military spending since 2010, U.S. defense expenditures are still 45 percent higher than they were before the 9\/11 terror attacks put the country on a seemingly permanent war footing. And despite massive regional buildups spurred by conflict in the Ukraine and the Middle East, the U.S. spends more on its military [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":146129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-146128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}