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Originally Posted by Cscutch
The problem with Canada is it's physical size... Countries like Belgium are like tiny, so they don't need 65 jets, they need like 10, and spend very little on the navy, which Canada needs lots of because of the amount of ocean it has to monitor.
Chris
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A fair point -- would Brazil be a valid benchmark then? The countries are roughly similar in size, and both have extensive coasts. From the link I posted above, Brazil spends only slightly more on its military than Canada does annually ($27.1B vs. $20.5B) despite having more than five times our population and 1.3 times our GDP.