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Goodbye Peace Dividend

Explore how per capita inflation-adjusted defense spending surpasses levels from the Reagan era and Vietnam. Is it possible?

Written byRazib Khan

2010-02-02T13:36:20 | 1 min read

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I got the following chart from Wikipedia, and it suggests that on a per capita inflation-adjusted basis we're spending more on defense today than we were during the Reagan build-up, or Vietnam! Is this for real?

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