Military Spending by Country | 1830-2022
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มี.ค. 2023
- This video ranks the top 15 countries in the world by military spending per year from 1830 to 2022. Spending is calculated in US dollars and is not adjusted for inflation.
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Source: ourworldindata, SIPRI
Music: Hearts of Iron IV - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
1833-1840 Carlist War
1839-1842 First Opium War
1846-1848 Mexican-American War
1853-1856 Crimean War
1861-1865 American Civil War
1866 Austro-Prussian War
1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War
1877-1878 Russo-Turkish War
1898-1899 Spanish-American War
1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War
1910-1919 Mexican Border War
1912-1913 Balkan Wars
1914-1918 World War I
1917-1922 Russian Civil War
1927-1949 Chinese Civil War
1937-1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
1939-1945 World War II
1947-1991 Cold War
1950-1953 Korean War
1955-1975 Vietnam War
1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War
1990-1991 Gulf War
2003-2011 Iraq War
2001-Present War on Terror
2022-2023 Russo-Ukrainian War
Can you give me a prediction on how much russias budget went up between 2022-2023
1864-1870 Paraguay War
@@doncomuna378 esqueceram e ficou bem fora o grafico em
@@leandrospimpolo7439 Fora ou foda?
2014-2023 Russo-Ukrainian War
The Soviet Union spending $300 billion on defense in 1985 is insane. As a % of GDP, that's like USA or China spending $3.5 trillion on defense in 2023.
Это СССР коммунизм вперед
They were literally printing tanks at some point.
One of the major reasons they bankrupted themselves while their people lived in 1 room apartments with a communal bathroom and stood in line each day for stale bread.
@@pumaa8416 if the USSR was so good why do majority of the eastern bloc never want to go back and tell me who ran to what side of Berlin when the wall fell?
@@pumaa8416You’re lying to yourself. My house is made of hardie board, stucko and rebar. My roof is secured to the foundation. Every new home in my area has to be made up to a certain code set by the county. Houses around the country vary greatly. If the USSR was so great why did it collapse? Just face it, your military spent more than it should have on a futile effort and we saw the results of that in 1991. Of course that’s not the only reason the USSR collapsed.
800 billion dollars. Can you smell it? That smell of democracy
I dont think the budget has technically increased for a long while if you factor in inflation.
Yes cuz democracy lets you have this kind of economy that allowes those numbers.
Democracy is not peace. Don't be a child 😅
Hail Democracy!!!!!!
*helldivers 2 intensifies*
You know germany is up to something when their military budget explodes 😂😂😂😊
jews are crying
@@ismailsancak3652 You're sick
@@ismailsancak3652Israel sells weapons to Germany, I think they are happy Germanys higher budget.
@@ismailsancak3652when are they not?
In 21st century Germany is nothing more than a US puppy. Those days are long gone and not coming back trust me.
First of all, I love that the HoI3/4 soundtrack is used.
Secondly, ridiculous how well it fits dynamically with the graphs?!?
Third, as a history nerd, this is simply the best
History nerd ?
Kingdom of France in 1853 ? LMAO
@@bunkerkorpf1440Kingdom of France ended in 1870 after the Franco-Prussian war
So if you don’t believe that there was a kingdom of france in 1853 then you’re wrong
@@Joebinlaggin513 There was no Kingdom of France in 1853 or 1870, youre ignorant.
It was the Second Empire held by Napoleon III, a totally different thing.
@@bunkerkorpf1440 French empire would be more correct since Napoleon III was an emperor, not a king. Napoleon III choose the title of emperor over king because "King" (or "Roi" in French) has been a very unpopular title ever since the French Revolution, but otherwise was a bog-standard monarchy of the time.
Simply leaving the country as France (outside of the Vichy regime) would have avoided this and would technically been correct, too.
These dynamic graphs are much more useful when you note major events within the video. For example starting in 1859 the US undergoes a meteoric rise then plumets after 1866. It's due to the Civil War of course, but many of the dramatic changes aren't so obvious - at least to me.
1986 - Chernobyl in USSR, after that in 87 you see it that spendings in USSR began to rapidly decrease
@@Yegoros It has nothing to do with Chernobyl. In mid 80s the Soviet Economy was already in shambles and the crisis started to accelerate rapidly.
@@losarpettystrakos7687 Yes, it was in crisis in mid-80s. But you don't know communists. They will never decrease spending on the army unless something serious happens. And this serious was Chornobyl. Total loss from this catastrophe is more than 250 bln usd in today's money
@@Yegoros Sure. Believe what you want
@@le_meme_man8983 that's what ppl say when they have no arguments)
5:55 I like how after WWII Poland jumped straight into 3rd place
Yes, how
@@oskich7758 Because it didn't exist during war (it was occupied by Soviet Union and Germany) so after it was brought back it was spending huge portion of GDP on military. Which is interesting considering that it wasn't a totally free country for over 200 years
Thats what oppression does to people- maxes the army and economy.
@@bifa5414 It was in Warsaw pact which explains military spendings)
@RyanMiller-tb6fd thats post ww2 my dude
It's interesting to note that Soviet military spending surpassed the United States in 1969, and remained significantly higher throughout the 1970s. The Carter and Reagan military build-ups are noticeable in the late 1970s and into the 1980s. Excellent graphs, thank you for posting this!
Soviets spending more than they could afford.
@@Ravie3Nonsense, they fell due to political pressure, not economical. Stop this misinformation..
By your logic North Korea should have fallen a long time ago. Soviet citizen definitely had it better than North Korean have it now. Even starving Ukrainians had it better.
@foreignfat6009 North Korea is propped up by China, if China wasn't holding their hand NK would collapse even without an external invasion
@@foreignfat6009 I wonder what could have possibly contributed to the large amount of political pressure placed on the soviet regime... Definitely not anything to do with the appalling economic conditions most of the soviet citizenry found themselves in.
@@GareBear420 Maybe ridiculous amount of ethnicity and different religion? And different cultures, which were suppressed. You are forgetting that Soviet Union was union of mostly poor countries. Russia was pretty much the richest and that doesn't say much after WW1, civil wars and ww2. It was impressive what they did with a poor ruin.
Again, North Korea has worse conditions for their people than most Soviet union and it didn't collapse out of economic pressure. And they won't. They need military coup or outside intervention to collapse. They don't have to deal with so much diversity.
If USA swapped places geographically, they wouldn't be a superpower. USA had huge economic issues, and it didn't collapse. USA had way less diversity than Soviet union.
Damn, France kicked serious ass for nearly a century 😳.
France was the best for long time
France was the strongest land army in Europe for hundred of years. They catch a lot of flak for surrendering during WW2 but they lost 92,000 troops in a matter of months and were just over run.
@@ryanhampson673 this is not an excuse SOViet Union lost 27, 000, 000
@@user-hz2eh3iq1f True, but lack of good Soviet commanders at the start didn’t help. Stalin purged all the good officers because he was a paranoid maniac. But as an American I do understand the great sacrifice the Soviets undertook…With huge amounts of American food and equipment to help.
Nous étions jadis un grand et beau pays..
Brilliant video and music as always, thanks 👍
Fake knowledge 😂😂 channel
World no1 usa
bro no english?
@@ayazhuma4511
The Soviet Union had the lead for quite a while
We just weren't dick swinging for the moon cuz we weren't being pressed. Don't F with America, you watch what happens in any world war when America joins
The USSR already had a lot of weapons before the war, so they didn't have to spend that much.
@Terror do Ocidente old weapons, tech is always improving and R&D innovation is why countries who stop spending fall way behind on the global scale. Seems like USA decided to conquer the planet in like 1988 and juiced the spending to like $275 billion a year and it never went down after that just straight climbed to almost a trillion dollars from then till now.
@@ltmammaguerillz6745 The Americans realized that even though they were the number 1 power, they still weren't able to defeat half of a country that was fighting with Russian AK 47 rifles, wearing slippers, and a "drum cymbal" on their head. After the embarrassment, they started to invest madly in their armed forces, not only to displace Socialist Russia, but also to not make the same mistakes!
@@doncomuna378 Losing the political will to fight is not same as an outright military defeat. America decided it was worth keeping Japan, S.Korea and Western Europe after WW2, so we stayed. America decided it wasn't worth keeping Vietnam, Afghanistan or Iraq, so we left.
The brief appearance of what should be the Irish Free State (instead of the Republic of Ireland, a term that wasn't used until 1948) on this chart says something about how absurdly expensive the civil war was.
I was there ...the price of a pint back then I'll tell you something
خلاصه جمهوری اسلامی ایران داره بر اسرائیل پیروز میشه . نیروی های روشنایی پیروز میدان هستند
@@johnwayne7673 Can't imagine the price of a pint back in the 50s or 60s cost more, course getting the money for it would be tough. How much was it do you remember?
When the soviet union collapsed but still the United States didn't stop spending...
Why would they stop? And a lot of it has to do with inflation too.
In real terms it decreased, but not massively
Defense contractors didn’t collapse.
@@Septimus_iiUS dollars value hasn't depreciated that much in the past 30 years
China...
US defense budget whenever there is a war: I am speed
The most entertaining and captivating video I've ever watched 😅
thanks for making this video so wonderful❤️🔥
In 1856, there is no French kingdom, we were ruled by Napoleon III, the Second Empire, after Napoleon was elected as the first French president democratically elected, he declared the empire one year later.
There's an animation between each year. For simplicity (for the eyes), it might be better this way
@Коля Красоткин oui comme Poutine
@@user-ct9sj3rh8p Гитлер НЕ пришел к власти на демократических выборах. Он получил место рейхсканцлера благодаря коррупционному скандалу, связанным с сука-сыночкой Гинденбурга, а партия НСДАП не получила большинства мест в парламенте, чтобы принимать решения без оглядки на другие партии. НСДАП вместо демократических процедур просто убивали депутатов других партий, ввели антиконституционный запрет на коммунистическую партию, и ввели антиконституционные законы, ограничивающие права и свободы граждан. НСДАП и Гитлер сломали демократические институты, они к своей абсолютной власти на выборах НЕ приходили - они власть ЗАХВАТИЛИ. Формально во время ВМВ у Германского рейха была конституция, гарантирующая права и свободы граждан, но НСДАП просто ее игнорировали.
@@Chriswaddle77👌thx
1852 and after, not 1856
I love how accurate the flags are
Is this ironic ?
There are inaccuracies, the Ottoman Empire is it the most obvious one and another one is Austria-Hungary which more commonly used the black and gold flag Habsburg flag.
It's still a lot better than other videos which just use modern flags and names though.
bruh wtf happened to the Belgian flag
Japan's Flag during it's empire is inaccurate. The flag shown there is the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy flags. It is still used today. The corrrect flag is the same flag as modern Japan.
@@tintin323 weimar republic = germany for example..it isnt
France🇫🇷 France🇫🇷France🇫🇷 and France 🇫🇷🤣 At the top of the leaderboard for 90% of the video. This is not surprising for the country that has won the most battles in human history. They have a high military culture and top technology.
It was great. Keep going👍
1943, America put a twin turbo on the defense budget and looked in rear view
That was when America made war into a business.
@1blackice1 War is a business in EVERY country... there is money in war. Just like Krupp steel company ww2
you don't mess with a country with military industrial complex or you'll learn why they don't have healthcare for asserting freedom😁
What was it before?
Soviet Union:OK usa I'm out you can stop spending
Usa:Eh,no thanks
😂😂😂😂
Edit: Holy cow that's a lot of likes
Edit 2:There's a war in the replies 💀
Однополярный мир полсе 1991 года , США контролировать начали всю планету в том числе за счёт баз НАТО по всему миру , а на это нужно много средств тратить . Весь мир после 1991 года колония США
@@danilos38 Can’t defeat Ukraine??
@@danilos38 В чем дело, Иван, с ума ты проигрываешь?
@@JimzieUSAball it's a war of attrition to the western resources. Russia can make rockets rain on ukraine if they wanted to end it.
@@danilos38 true
We need a video of total gdp towards military i think that explains more.
can we get a navy size comparison?
UK's Budget instantly Increased after capturing INDIA (which was world's 25% GDP)
Bro uk already had an massive military budget before the conquest.
What do you think Britain was able to conquer india in the fitst place
@@vatsal7640 here comes the brown sepoy . This is not conlony age .
@@sohenmondal5471 here comes another indian nationalist who thinks everybody with different opinion is a sepoy.
Bruh seriously when will you guys grow up??
@@vatsal7640 India back in the 19th century was divided into several kingdoms and hence it was easy to conquer fragmented kingdoms one by one which is what Brits did. Had India been unified then it would never had been directly colonized. India's situation would have been something like China in the 'Century of Humiliation'
@@indiafirst3676agreed, but India would have still lost.
It's crazy how quickly the US can dwarf other nations in military spending when we gear up for war.
In just 10 seconds, 1:28 - 1:38, we went from like $140,000,000 to $2.3 BILLION
🇺🇸 💪 being rich helps 🤑 💰
@@Messerschmitt_BF_109G_10 A civil war does that to you I guess
one of the difficult questions in history is when specifically the United States became a Great Power and when they became a "Superpower". I usually look at the history of the Civil War and argue that if there was ever a point where the US was considered one of the strongest countries on Earth, then it must be before the Civil War, because the amount mobilized for a *civil war* and not even a war against another major power was insane, and dwarfs a lot of the rest of the world.
@@brettk9316 You aren't rich. It's all bought with debts. Debts that your grandchildren will have to pay off...
Why do I find this so exciting to watch ?
Everyone is "war over let's stop spending so much on our military" USA: "hold my beer"
France is pretty stable all the time, but we can see that it never manages to adapt quickly enough compared to other countries
False just study the use of new equipment during the First World War.
@@Bracus.Reghuskhow does the implementation of new equipment in a single war have to do with their defense budget throughout the past 200 years?? You’re talking about apples when the other dude is talking about oranges 😂
@@roronoazoro2970 The use of new equipment come the implementation of new strategies and organisation just study This is a fascinating subject, and it shows that the French army has been at the forefront of innovation and adaptation, the basic comment is just either bad faith or ignorance.
@@roronoazoro2970 In fact you can learn how the french modify the army mobility between 14 and 18. They just blow away the standard of the time
UK 1948: Poland what hell are you doing
Poland: sorry I'm going back now
Poland was totally destroyed and had to rebuild itself without any foreign help.
@@user-nm6sp1eg5o In 1948 they had an awful lot of Soviet 'help'. Nothing from their supposed allies in the West, though :(
The west wanted to help, but the Soviets refuses. That’s also why Poland didn’t get any financial reparations from Germany. The Soviets didn’t allow it.
@@Septimus_iiIt was the Soviets that rejected the Marshall Plan for us. They thought Lenin magic would be enough, and it wasn't.
This is great and fascinating, is this military or army budget? Certain nations back in the day probably relied much more on their navy (and perhaps later, Air Force)?
I think it’s not limited to army, no way Britain spending that much money on land army in the late 19th century.
@@kospencer1 My thought too
Very interesting. Where have you got information about military budget amounts?
he just made it up
То есть по видео получается, что процентально относительно годов военные расходы СССР в довоенные годы и военные почти не отличаются? Серьёзно?
France hit different
can you do re- calc fto inflation like 200 mil in 1880s but how much 200 mil cost in 2023?
Is this music from HOI 4 or is it just free use music?
UK's Budget decreased instantly when INDIA got Independant😂
Oh god another indian natinalist.
You can clearly see the numbers growing, not decreasing even after India's independence
@@vatsal7640OH GOD ANOTHER INDIAN HATER. PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN NATIONALIST.
@@priyashmukherjee cringe af. And who said I was an indian hater??
Russia's army budget is several times smaller than that of the United States, but at the same time Russia holds the status of the 2nd army in the world in power. Just imagine what Russia would do with the US budget 💀
ты же понимаешь что она считаеться второй армией мира из-за количества населения и ядерного оружия в первую очередь ?
@@undefined7704 ну вообще запад очень часто восхищался своей техникой и постоянно говорил как она сокрушит Россию при войне, тем самым пытаясь поставить Россию "на место" . А оказалось, что дорогая техника запада не справляется с дешёвыми, немного улучшенными танками СССР. А если говорить про дисциплину то в России она очевидно лучше. Ядерные ракеты ты вообще можешь не включать в военную силу, их все равно никто не применит.
2nd army in the world in power yet can't even win against Ukraine LMFAO
@@affdafwfwawithout NATO help, Ukrain would lost in month. Without starlink and NATO satellits and artillery and ect, they cant defeat Russia
@@affdafwfwa I could be wrong, but the entire Russian army is not at war with Ukraine, only part of the 2nd army of the world is located there
When the music starts at 5:15 and it intensifies at 5:25
☠️☠️☠️
Would also be interesting to see this adjusted with PPP. In US dollars alone it doesn't give a true representation of military expenditure. China and Russia's for example is likely at least double when you consider PPP.
Se hace en dolares para ver el gasto real de todos por igual
I totally agree, but Purchasing Power Parity is calculated using consumer goods.
It doesn't really tell us how much cheaper military equipment, personnel, and research are for other countries vs the US.
We would probably need a different metric to properly compare them.
@@AbdulGoodLooks you're still going to get a far better representation using PPP than you are merely using dollars.
🇺🇸 military spending is equal to money laundering . it hasn't made the us military 10x more powerful than Afghanistan a country thats not even in the top 10
@@Ltasty gdp
just a detail but from 1852 to 1870 France was named "Second Empire" and not "Kingdom" anymore (even if the Second Empire is considered as a parliamentary monarchy)
Yeah and from 1848 to 1852 it was the second french republic
Where is Poland? 26mld EUR 2022... based on which data you prepared this dynamic chart?😮
Where do you even get the data for the Grand Duchy of Tuscany
Thanks for making the vedio also I change my name
It would have been interesting to split the US with Confederacy during the Civil War.
лучше,чтоб америка исчезла.
@@user-ti6xm4rz4fЧестно говоря, вы завидуете, вы ненавидите США только потому, что они номер 1, честно говоря, я мечтаю, чтобы Россия и США заставили Китай и все остальное исчезнуть, а я бразилец, в моей стране полно коммунистов, вот таких ослов , ты знаешь? Они не такие, как Путин, который любит свою страну, люди здесь все разрушают, убивают экономику, у них нет даже хорошего военного планирования, поэтому мне бы очень хотелось быть на стороне России и США, если Если бы Трамп был у власти в США, было бы несколько соглашений, как и у них, и сделали бы больше..
@@davidlucas5550 ,вот честно,никакой зависти к Америке или еще к какой стране вообще нет у россиян,честно-всем пофиг.Пофиг,это когда безразлично,когда ты не думаешь об этом.Америка-международный бандит,страна,которая несет горе и войны по всей планете.Поэтому Америку ненавидит большая половина человечества.Кстати,в России Бразилию любят,у нас есть юмористический фильм"Здравствуйте,я ваша тетя"Там богатая тетушка приехала из Бразилии,где много диких обезьян"😁,и теперь большинство россиян так и думают,что обезьяна-ваше основное животное😁Ну а еще у вас весело,солнечно,Пеле👍
@@user-ti6xm4rz4fсмешно, ну меня не волнуют никакие обиды, честно говоря, мне кажется, что это смешно, но это правда чувак, к сожалению ничего хорошего отсюда не выходит, умные те, кто отсюда выходят.
@@user-ti6xm4rz4f Поэтому я сказал, что мечтаю, чтобы США и Россия покончили со всем остальным.
Thanks!
I Wonder why mexico and usa went up at the same time💀
Imagine if all that money was used to improve people's lives instead of destroying them
An unfortunate reality.
Impossible
then how do you defend against ennemy with rock and stick ?
You have to provide security for them first
@@MBGA123 Well, the problem is, you don't need a 700 billion+ investment into military to protect your nation. Unless you consider invading other countries for their resources as "protecting our people"
it’s interesting that the eastern block countries also had quite a lot spent on he military during the start of cold war
Меня это тоже удивило, если место Чехословакии можно объяснить, у неё и так была сильная военная промышленность ещё до вм2 то, как ГДР мог столько тратить, наверно деньги советы довели.
How did you convert USSR spending into dollars?
For a split second in 1990 when Germany unifies the music changes and Germany starts climbing and its like wait are we doing this again????
🇬🇧 The differentiation into the Kingdom of Prussia and Bavaria, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, West and East Germany and since 1990 Germany for the geographical area of Germany reflects the political situation very accurately. In the case of Great Britain, on the other hand, I am simply missing the countries of the British Empire or the Commonwealth. A category NATO or Warsaw Pact would also reflect the historical events of the time more accurately. The same applies to the more than 50 states of the Ukaine Contact Group. In general, I consider the consideration of military expenditures to be much more meaningful than many other explanations for the course of history, so: Thank you for this YT video!
🇩🇪 Die Differenzierung in Königreich Preussen und Bayern, deutsches Kaiserreich, Weimarer Republik, Nazi-Germany, West- und Ost-Deutschland und seit 1990 Deutschland für den geographischen Raum Deutschland gibt die politische Situation sehr exakt wieder. Bei Großbritannien hingegen fehlen mir schlichtweg die Länder des Britischen Empire bzw. des Commonwealth. Eine Kategorie NATO bzw. Warschauer Pakt würde das historische Zeitgeschehen ebenfalls genauer widerspiegeln. Gleiches gilt für die über 50 Staaten der Ukaine-Kontaktgruppe. Die Betrachtung von Militärausgaben halte ich generell für viel aussagekräftiger, als manch andere Erklärung für den Gang der Geschichte, deshalb: Danke für dieses YT-Video!
I think this is just for the UK not the entire British empire. Also the UK has existed since 1801 (apart from a slight name change when most of Ireland left the Union in 1922) so the term "UK" or "United Kingdom" is correct as opposed to Germany which had many names during this time frame
Its not flawless though, considering that nazi Germany wasn’t really a thing before 34
The video is good, but it has a lot of mistakes. One of the big mistakes I've noticed is the hugely inflated country budgets for 1898, which were actually ~3 times lower than shown in the video. Also one of the big mistakes - the Russian military budget for 1994, which could not be equal to 94 billion dollars (which was more than the country's total budget for that year, lmao) and was actually about 13 billion dollars.
And the Belgian flag 😮🤦
я думаю, это все в перерасчете на сегодняшние деньги
@@Alex_R88 So, adjusted for inflation? Probably is what happened
How did you do this?!
Now do one about national debt that would be interesting
Fascinating seeing empires rise and fall.
Wait wait Myanmar was higher than Russia and Italy once? No way..
Germany:back to back slowly👀
The world :hah?!
I like how you can tell whenever America was involved in a war because the defense budget would always shoot into the stratosphere
Você vê que tudo está tranquilo quando o Brasil se encontra no gráfico 😅😂
Прекрасно❤ всё очень наглядно и ясно. Спасибо за видео!
Що тобі тут ясно, кацап? Ясно те що Україна вам ввалює гівна по самі гладни.
Ясно, що русні пизда)
вот именно. очень интересная ситуация.
Почему "самая мирная страна" - СССР в 1943, 1944, 1945 годах тратила меньше, чем в 1945, 1946, 1947 годах? :)
@@AlexKoso потому что самые светлые мозги рождаются именно в России. Например, пенициллин в США был изобретён раньше, но стоил дороже, чем впоследствии разработка пенициллина в СССР. И так - по всей остальной продукции. То же самое и сейчас - все виды нашего вооружения намного дешевле, чем во всех других странах мира. Что свидетельствует об уникальности человеческого материала в нашей самой лучшей на планете стране.
@@user-vq6zu8wl1e завязывайте с нацизмом. Вам это ни к лицу :)
de donde sacan esta información???
i cant seem to find any solid data before 1950 on military spending data either expenditure as a share of GDP or annual budget etc. idk where the person got this data from but it couldn't have been SIPRI Milex.
Now I understand why the People's Army of Poland was the same size (or even larger?) than the British Army at the time.
There was nothin like that
Did not expect to see Canada on here.
Pressured by world police usa to arm up against the new world order BRICS or mainly Russia china and India
Canada, the most forgotten world power. World’s 9th largest economy, almost 40 million people, but totally forgotten as a power both now and in the past due to proximity and always being in alliance with the US and UK.
@Ravie3 I live in Canada I knew we had the 5th largest army in ww2 at the end. I just did not realize how powerful we are. On a side note one of indias Carriers was the HMCS Bonaventure.
It's like... you can almost smell the exact second someone touched our boats
The figures are wrong, certainly for UK expendature recently - are these adjusted for current inflation rates ot using historic rates? Under current rates, our budget in 2022 was $66bn not 57bn (£53bn) adjusted for historic inflation its closer to $70bn.
I'm curious. Even the Qing Dynasty itself didn't know how much its military expenditure was. Where did you hear that? Did the emperor tell you this personally when you traveled back in time to 1830?
While I do not know the exact answer for Qing Dynasty case, but most of "spending" cases in history were taken from the book records from trading guilds. They always have a very good record about what when and how much was sold. And they've been keeping their ledgers for centuries. Similarly, some of the spending can be calculated from the known proportions. Like you've got a record from smith's guild about number of armor suits ordered. You can use this record and a knowledge about typical soldier's gear to estimate the rest of the spendings.
@@tarmnv Maybe you know about the guilds, but you definitely don’t know about the Qing Dynasty
5:15 No no Germany
HANS WHERE IS ZA PANERKAMPFWAGONS
Nein nein nein
@@BenjaminMilekowsky nein nein nein say it like zist NEIN NEIN NEIN!
1848 Revolutionary movement in Austria and Germany, 1853 War in Crimean peninsula, 1871 French-Prussian war, 1877 Russo-Turkish war, 1905 Russo-Japanese war
Informative, interesting,but lacks Gas Gas Gas.
The United States has more than 730 military bases around the world
Media:Our world is threatened by Russia😂
“Our world” = NATO and Russia is still a threat although not as remotely as dangerous as China. We’re still coming off that high of being the worlds sole superpower for almost 80 years.
Well, it's ruled by scared dictator with 10k nukes
@@brok1589 6k
Mm but the US isn't the one invading it's neighbors and disrupting the economic stability of the world.
Things I'm taking from this 1. Biggest USA export is war 2. Yugoslavia at one point had 7th largest military budget. No wonder west did everything it could to get rid of balkan super power. 3. Czechoslovakia, same as Yugoslavia. West doesn't like Slavic superpowers
I very much appreciate the Hoi4 soundtrack playing
Is this just the "army budget" or is it the entire defence budget ??
США тратит миллионы долларов чтобы создать ручку которая пишет в космосе, а Россия тратит 10центов,и берет с собой обычный карандаш, вот и разница в расходах
Сейчас сюда придёт какой-нибудь умник и напишет об грифеле от карандаша(что он опасен в условиях невесомости и ограниченной влажности)... Карандаши на космических станциях СССР были - восковые.
Правда космическую ручку СССР всё-таки купил у США. Восковые карандаши пишут очень уж размыто.
When budgets work, history is made.
Source?
5:34 Didn't know Canada, Australia and New Zealand got that high in budget during WW2
And this is peacetime US spending. It can still skyrocket if it needs to.
It can still pour countless billions into pointless wars if it wants to
We got infinite money baby, our money are propped up by our military and other countries rely on it. If they don't want our defense well they are in trouble.
@@EricChien95 150% debt to gdp ratio 🙃
if you see the pattern most budgets spiked before empire fall!
Well the industries that make military supplies can be pretty advanced and cannot be scaled quickly, so the days of sudden military spending seem to be over, now you need a standing military big enough to support advanced industry. And rely on stock piles of weapons.
Wow, Prussia was so efficient with its military spending.
The percentage to gdp would have been nice
It costs money to run million bases around the world. plus contractors are charging the US Governemnt multiples amounts on items.
It's just that Gorbachev came to power just in 1985 and America bought him, he decided to destroy the Union. Since then, everything has gone downhill. He himself did not begin to live in destroyed Russia, the remnants of the empire that he destroyed, preferred to live and go to another world in Germany. Yeltsin has more conscience and honor, although he began to abuse alcohol, he tried to correct what Gorbachev left him, it was Yeltsin who recommended Putin to the West, for which we thank him!
How did Gorbachev convince so many soviet republics to leave in just 5 years? Wow that's really impressive.
Oh yes Putin. Such a great guy. He wouldnt start a war. Right?
Сразу понятно какая страна самая миролюбивая и демократичная😂
СССР 30-х годов, конечно. Сразу видно - стремился к миру)
@@dissensiohola8994 USSR in 1930s control Mogolia to be independent from China.I dont think it is a Peaceful thing
@@dissensiohola8994 в 30-х годах все были такие милые и пушистые. И ТОЛЬКО СТАЛИН...
Very cool video
The UK was the 3rd largest Global defense spender in 2021. Only China and America spent more. 15th Feb 2022.
Soviet Union: "Let's spend a lot on the military."
Third Reich: "Hold mein Bier."
USA: "Put down your beer and hold both of mine."
I guess having the power to be totally in debt but still spend massive amounts of money inflated the numbers in modern times
In modern times?
Standing armies is a relatively new thing, before that, countries bankrupted themselves thrice over using mercenaries (and sometimes benefited in the long run)
@@SebHaarfagre except countries were actually expected to pay their debt back, and since their currency was based on the amount of gold they actually had, they couldn't borrow that much when they were bankrupted
It doesn’t matter that you’re in debt if you can pay the rate
build up a big enough army and you ascend past the global economy, because you can simply not pay your bills and they can't take the money from you. They'll actually be paying you to keep to yourself
I'm surprised Canada spent so much in the early 50's. What was that, were they that active in the Korean war (I didn't know they were at all in such case, pardon to any Canadians)
Korean War..
We also still used to field a very large Navy and were very active in supporting NATO with the stationing of several air force squadrons (first F86 Sabres, then Avro CF-100's) and tank brigades in Europe (mainly Centurians) in West Germany)
To be honest, we are just a shell of what we once were.
EDIT: Canada actually was a major contributor to the Anti-Submarine contingent of NATO in the North Atlantic during the Cold War (both Navy and Maritime Air Patrol) and also maintained 2 aircraft carriers from the 50's through 60's (but retired them both for good in early 70's)
And of course there was the setting up of the DEW LINE and the NORAD defensive stations in tandem with the US for the defense of North America against the threat of Soviet bombers over the Arctic Circle.
It is sad to see the state of Canada's military today. Using frigates made in the 80s, with no plans in place to build more. Still not paying their 2% minimum obligation to NATO.
@@jamesg9468 we depend on Canada and Denmark to protect the northpole.
USA in 1991:
*I DIDN'T HEAR NO BELL*
Someone needs to tell the US that the Cold War ended a couple decades ago. And you still get people in there saying they need to put more money into army?! It’s insane!
Estou surpreedido com o poder bélico do Império do Brasil desde 1843,surreal !!
Monarquia brasileira era maravilhosa
Сколько денег впустую выброшено.
Stayed for the HOI4 music
Is this the budget of just the Army or the whole military. The title says military but the video says Army so I'm confused.
The entire military
these are the official data .. but is necessarily undervalued because many secret programs are not represented in the military budget
Russia and France historically spend a lot on military.
Thanks Einstein
while definitely not higher than that of the US, some analysts believe china's actual military spending is understated
Very true, but I'd imagine the U.S. has black budget projects as well.
@@EricChien95 The fact that you're using military bases as a means of saying the numbers for both US and China are accurate is about as accurate as your reading abilities.
A Chinese military base poses a serious threat to the United States
@Ricky “you really think the US is spending 50,000 dollars on a hammer”
@@xy-inventor1885 Yeah. If a politician is taking money from the hammer company
US @ 1860 "Excuse me, you mind if I scooch over. Thanks!"
One wonders how accurate these are and what exchange rates were used!