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Originally Posted by MarchHare
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.
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Man would I hate to be a private in Brazils marine. They have something like 14,000 members and only 2000 are conscripts.
On top of that, Brazil isn't really getting good bang for their buck, as they're airforce and navy are fairly obsolite. But they're in a region where their enemies are in worse shape then them.
If I was going to quantify bang for the buck, Brazil is an example of not getting good value for the dollar.