State GDP differences drive disparate military spending capacity

Evidence

Wealthy states have larger total resource pools, or gross domestic products (GDPs), than poorer states, and they can afford to spend more on weapons. To put this in perspective, in 2011 the United States had a GDP of roughly $15 trillion. At that time, this was twice the GDP of China, eight times the GDP of Russia, thirty times the GDP of Iran, and four hundred thousand times larger than the GDP of Montserrat and Tuvalu. States differ spectacularly in how much they have available to spend. — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 555

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Africa’s 1.3 billion people produce just 3% of world GDP.; French garrison cuts threatened up to half of Djibouti’s GDP — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 671

Broader Connections

• Africa’s 1.3 billion people produce just 3% of world GDP. #exemplifies (0.70)
• French garrison cuts threatened up to half of Djibouti’s GDP #exemplifies (0.70) — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 671