10 Nations that Emerge As the Biggest Military Spenders

6. Japan:

The land of rising sun, Japan is one such nation that spends whooping sum in defense. In this country, maintaining a military establishment is mainly to achieve national security. The country’s defense budget has risen from 0.8 percent to 4.68 trillion yen ($51.7 billion). Since coming to power, Shinzo Abe, the Prime Minister began pushing for a stronger military and he further suggested that Japan should be allowed to be a part of U.N. sanctioned military actions.

5. United Kingdom:

United Kingdom, the country with the fifth largest defense budget in the world spends about 2.5 percent of its GDP on its armed forces. As of 2013, the value for Military expenditure in this nation is $59.8 billion. The British Armed Force stood for protecting the United Kingdom, its overseas territories and Crown Dependencies, as well as for promoting Britain's wider security interests, and to support international peacekeeping efforts.

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