They approved treaties and never weighed the cost in defense expenditures.

The second large area of our defense expenditures overseas is in the Far East.

It is weighed down by defense expenditures to finance its conflict with India.

"Outside of a couple of defense expenditures, that's the biggest check I've ever seen," he said.

Democrats say they have no choice but to protect defense-related jobs because the Administration won't replace defense expenditures with social spending.

The high defense expenditure took money from other development projects such as education, health care and housing.

Yet the new and much higher figures for Soviet defense expenditures were never rescinded.

"Estimates place Chinese defense expenditure at two to three times officially disclosed figures."

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, global defense expenditure has increased markedly.

This makes Iran's ranking the 25th largest defense expenditure globally.