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- In October 1949, two months after the United States had officially joined NATO, the Truman administration created a Military Assistance Program under the auspices of the Mutual Defense Assistance Act, with a budget of $1.3 billion.
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Thus, while military assistance had been a little more than a third of the $28 billion in aid that the United States had extended during the Marshall Plan era (1949–1952), during the succeeding eight years, it was almost 50 percent of a larger, $43 billion total.
OCO costs alone were 10.3% of $560.7 billion and 9.5% of the total of $619.7 billion. At the same time, if one does use the $619.7 billion total for the U.S., it is: 4.3 times the IISS estimate of $145 billion for China, and 2.9 times the SIPIRI estimate of $215 billion.
During the Cold War half century the United States spent around $13 trillion (at 1996 prices) on defence. Or around two years’ GDP of the U.S. in 1996. Other states, maybe twice as much again.
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