Military budget
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A military budget (or military expenditure), also known as a defense budget, is the amount of financial resources dedicated by an entity (most often a nation or a state), to raising and maintaining an armed forces. Military budgets often reflect how strongly an entity perceives the likelihood of threats against it, or the amount of aggression it wishes to employ. It also gives an idea of how much financing should be provided for the upcoming year. The size of a budget also reflects the entity's ability to fund military activities. Factors include the size of that entity's economy, other financial demands on that entity, and the willingness of that entity's government or people to fund such military activity. Generally excluded from military expenditures is spending on internal law enforcement and disabled veteran rehabilitation.
See also
- List of countries by military expenditures
- List of countries by past military expenditure
- List of countries by military expenditure per capita
- Permanent war economy
- History of military technology
- Military Keynesianism
- Military–industrial complex
- Peace dividend
- Defense contractor
- Guns versus butter model
- Swords to ploughshares
- List of countries by Global Militarization Index
- War finance