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[kandrathe]

kandrathe--

I appreciate the link.  :-)

It is quite interesting you bring up the cut in European social programs resulting from an increase in military spending.  After I posted, I found an article which pointed out demographic shifts--the Baby Boomers are aging, putting them into the "dependent" status of the European states at the time when these states are supposed to be entering into true autonomous security.  Riiiight.

This makes even more difficult the problem of fundign their security apparatus. 
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Thanks for the reply.
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I found this older comparison of various nations defense spending as a percentage of GDP. It is still interesting to note the trend.

http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/allied_con...9/tableE-5.html