Interesting military spending facts ... Israel spends almost as much as India and has about 1,050,000,000 people less. ;)

Message to the two great countries arguing in this thread - Have a beer and relax. :thumbsup

Who cares who got the biggest army, we got Carlsberg.
If we stop selling carlsberg to a country the damage would be at least 3 times bigger than any possible attack from a terroist.
The danes can outdrink any country in the world :winkwink:

Why do people often suggest that the Canadian military is a joke? Does it have any reason to spend more than the $10 billion a year it already spends? There's only 14 countries in the world that have more military spending than Canada, and all of them are allies to Canada except for maybe 3. So how much should Canada be spending? $20 billion? $30 billion? $40 billion?

Maybe it's just the fiscal conservative in me, but in my opinion, pointless overspending is the real joke, and choosing instead to invest in education, health care, and infrastructure is an excellent choice. Maybe that's one of the reasons Canada always ranks highly on quality of living surveys?