defence budget

Its defence budget is thought to be expanding by around 12% a year, though its real size is the subject of conjecture.

Mr Lynn said the time was not right for overall cuts in the US defence budget since the country was still at war.

The money has come out of the Treasury's contingency reserve and not the defence budget.

But for many Republicans, voting for a tax increase would be a bigger sin than allowing vicious cuts in the defence budget.

In a BBC interview in 2006 he was goaded into a furious, shrieking attack on American criticisms of China's rapidly growing defence budget.

It has returned to an East of Suez policy but with a defence budget less than half what it was in the 1960s.

What it did not involve was a commensurate increase in the defence budget.

Mr Obama said in Hawaii this week that planned cuts to the US defence budget would not affect the US's presence in Asia.

But given the party's determination to avoid any blame for the Iraq mess, Congress seems unlikely to squeeze the defence budget hard.

Mr Romney promises to set a floor for the defence budget of 4% of GDP, and plough any efficiency savings back into the armed forces.

And it could call on so much more: in relation to the country's size, its defence budget and army are quite small by historical standards.

Mr Obama's plans rely significantly on tax increases for the wealthy, as well as on cuts in healthcare costs and the defence budget.

Our Defence Budget would be astronomical if we we rent in partnership with the U. S!

The defence budget of America alone, at $693 billion, accounts for more than 60% of the total.

It is clear that America will have to make cuts to our defence budget over the next 10 years.

Annual interest costs on it would exceed the US defence budget and the whole category of discretionary spending.

However the rising defence budget, which dwarves spending on education and health, has met mounting domestic criticism.

In Britain, cuts to an already overstretched defence budget are only being postponed until after next year's election.

Equivalent to 3 per cent of our GDP, equal to our defence budget and a third of our annual tax revenues?

It spends merrily from the defence budget on developing new strains of Angora rabbits and 'Namkeen Herbal Tea'!

Since then the defence budget has shrunk in importance while spending on domestic public services has become more prominent.

Over the course of the decade, the US annual defence budget has doubled in cash terms to reach nearly $700bn in 2010.

But it can still muster 1. 5m people under arms and a defence budget almost as big as the whole of the rest of the world's.

The defence budget was more than $700bn last year - representing the largest portion of the US federal government's discretionary budget.

A shrinking defence budget will demand a greater concentration of US power.

The cost of the recession will push the budget deficit to some 12% of GDP this year, but the squeeze on the defence budget began years ago.

It is also a time when the government is desperate to save money, not least on the stretched defence budget.

But if you have Pakistan and China as your neighbour. . . well perhaps this defence budget could be too little, too late !

But this pales in comparison with America's mighty defence budget.

In the year 2054, the entire defence budget will purchase just one aircraft.

According to defence budget numbers, spending has been growing at double-digit rates for years now.

Hence China's defence budget, which has grown much faster than its economy, worrying neighbours such as Taiwan, Japan and India.

The legislature passed T$9. 9bn in funds requested by the government as part of its 2007 defence budget.

But is the defence budget on target?

The defence budget, which was increased by 40% this year, is being overseen by the unelected Gotabhaya Rajapakse.

In 2010 China's defence budget growth rate slowed because of the impact of the financial crisis.

So there is a pressing need to bring order and sanity to Britain's overstretched defence budget.

India's defence budget is expected to exceed $30bn by 2010-12, or about 3 per cent of current global spending.

Russia's defence budget is due to rise by 60 per cent between 2010 and 2013.

The official defence budget for 2010 was Rmb532bn ($80. 8bn).

It also suggested China's true defence budget was two to three times the official figure last year.