Ahh, perpetual war, the perfect Keynesian stimulus for a falling empire. I recall a rather upperty German chap following a similar economic policy back in the 1930s. I wonder how that turned out.~
Just out of interest, is the above pie graph normalised for population size (i.e. per capita), economy (i.e. %GDP), state revenue (i.e. %taxtake) or not at all. If not, it would be interesting to see what effect such normalisation(s) would have; would Iran military spending rise above the 2% mark?
Ahh, perpetual war, the perfect Keynesian stimulus for a falling empire. I recall a rather upperty German chap following a similar economic policy back in the 1930s. I wonder how that turned out.~
Just out of interest, is the above pie graph normalised for population size (i.e. per capita), economy (i.e. %GDP), state revenue (i.e. %taxtake) or not at all. If not, it would be interesting to see what effect such normalisation(s) would have; would Iran military spending rise above the 2% mark?