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The number of people is a hard statistic to derive.  

Anyway, this is a pretty article from a pretty good source.

by ATinNM on Wed Dec 2nd, 2009 at 06:44:10 PM EST
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Thanks very much but I am not after USA military spending...just opposite...I want to know how much money they make as a part of GDP. One could argue that they just spend but they also make and sell weaponry, planes , equipment etc.And also I see that it is not possible to find data but I would be interested how much money USA companies make thanks to supplying military complex and how many people are actually involved in working for them.Obviously it's not possible to find such data on Internet.
I am aware of this:
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"For globalization to work, America can't be afraid to act like the almighty superpower that it is. The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonald-Douglas, the designer of the F-15, and the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technology is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps."

Thomas Friedman, New York Times, March 28, 1999  
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but as we have two group of people , one believing that military complex do generate USA economy well and other that believe that they are just spending, I wanted to find more numbers as for example how many people work in MC and how much do they earn etc.How much money they generate for USA economy?
Thanks anyway...

by vbo on Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 at 01:04:35 AM EST
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In terms of money I have no idea, but in terms of overall scale I have this from Chalmers Jhonson:

Why the US has really gone broke - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition

By 1990 the value of the weapons, equipment and factories devoted to the Department of Defense was 83% of the value of all plants and equipment in US manufacturing.


Wait this is important. Someone is wrong on the Internet.
by generic on Thu Dec 3rd, 2009 at 07:44:33 AM EST
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thanks...
by vbo on Fri Dec 4th, 2009 at 07:03:24 AM EST
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