The stated US military budget of 525 Billion is larger than the next 13 largest countries military budgets combined. That is only part of the Military budget.
Here are a sampling of other - non budget, military costs.
So how misleading is the $525 billion figure?
For starters, the $525.4 billion does not include $88.5 billion for
unbudgeted costs of wars overseas, called Overseas Contingency
Operations. Add other Pentagon spending details and the projected
outlays (see fiscal 2013 budget at p. 84) come to $672.9 billion, which
is 28 percent more than the basic Defense budget.
But wait!—There’s more.
Each year the Director of National Intelligence releases a total
budget figure for national intelligence. For fiscal 2013 it was $52.6
billion, down from $53.9 billionin fiscal 2012. National security
includes the NSA, CIA, and other intelligence services. Military
intelligence spending, included in the base Defense budget, was $19.2
billion. (A good place to track these budget issues is the Federation of
American Scientists Intelligence Resource Program.)
Next there’s $19.2 billion for the nuclear bomb-making arm of the
Energy Department. Homeland Security includes $13.2 billion for customs
and border patrol and $10.5 billion for the Coast Guard.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/01/1184033/-The-uncalculated-unreported-real-defense-budget
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