September 12, 1985, July 28) (Yi Chou, world military expenditure in 1985 amounted to more than 9000 billion dollars.

1985 9, 12, said a report released by the U.S. State Department, in 1985 the world's total military spending will reach $ 944 billion in 1983 and 1984 were $ 810 billion and $ 875 billion. The report notes that in 1983, the Soviet military spending of $ 258 billion to $ 217 billion in the United States.
U.S. military spending is now the world's first. Actual military spending in 1999 was up to $ 287.9 ​​billion, about 1.5 times that of the European Union, Japan, Russia, and China's military spending sum. U.S. arms sales enduring eight years in a row from 1991 to 1998 to become the world's number one arms supplier. In January 1999, the Clinton State of the Union stressed: that the government will change the decline in military spending since 1985, will increase to $ 12 billion by 2000 (the total will reach 300 billion U.S. dollars) expenditure on arms, used to improve the weapons and equipment, improve the salaries and benefits. This expenditure is more than the mid-1980s the United States to implement the "Star Wars" to the amount of large-scale arms race in the highest year of $ 291.1 billion and the Soviet Union. Meanwhile, White House officials also revealed that, from the six years from 2000 to 2005, Clinton's hope that the increase in military spending of 100 billion U.S. dollars.