That’s a difference of $363 billion, which would be enough to fund solar power for nearly every household in the U.S. military budget is much more than the $514 billion spent by the rest of the world’s 144 nations combined. The nations of the world are dangerously unprepared to secure our collective planetary future. has barely begun to address its historical responsibility in contributing to global fossil fuel emissions. The climate crisis continues to wreak havoc, and the U.S. Meanwhile, basic needs continue to go unmet for hundreds of millions of people around the world. Many analysts have predicted a long-term war of attrition, with no victory in sight for either side - it remains unclear how continuously increasing militarization can end this war. Military spending by NATO members, including the U.S., totalled $1.232 trillion in 2022, up 0.9 percent since 2021. military aid to Ukraine amounted to $19.9 billion in 2022, but this was only 2.3 percent of total U.S. including Ukraine, which had the highest single-year increase in military spending SIPRI has ever recorded, rising 640 percent to $44 billion since Russia invaded. Many of these next 10 countries are geopolitically aligned with the U.S. spending is more than the next 10 countries combined, more than last year when it was larger than the next nine. And it’s about 10 times as much as the next largest spender, Russia, which spent about $86 billion in the same year.

That’s three times as much as the second largest spender, China, which spent $292 billion in 2022. The United States remains the world’s largest military spender by far, with its $877 billion representing 39 percent of global military spending.

That’s up 3.7 percent since the previous year, including the steepest increase among European nations since the end of the Cold War over 30 years ago. World military spending reached a new record high of $2.24 trillion in 2022, according to new data published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

(White House, Erin Scott)Īnd 10 Times More than Russia Rest of World Spends $363bn Less Than US

The Face of War by Martha Gellhorn