Provocations of capitalist militarism

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reports in 2026 that the U.S. accounts for roughly 40% of global military spending, more than the next several countries combined.  The U.S. maintains roughly 750 military bases in over 80 countries, far exceeding any other nation.  

The militarist provocations of the USA, for example, have included the extension of direct and indirect support for counter-revolutionary armies for civil war, as in Central America (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras); the further expansion of the Rapid Deployment Force, which can assemble and put into the field a quarter million members of the Army, Navy, and Airforce in a crisis situation; equipping its strategic air forces in the Far East with new strategic bombers able to carry both nuclear weapons and the Short Range Attack Missile (SRAM); and the enormous weaponry of the USA itself, as well as that it has located in the Third World.

Specifically, the US has spent over $8 trillion on post-9/11 wars, according to estimates from the Brown University Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.  Together with its allies, the US dropped over 337,000 bombs and missiles between 2001 and 2018, according to analysis by the Council on Foreign Relations.
 

Generally, the continuing and expanding diversions of resources to military purposes is occurring in all market countries, with the growth rate of military spending of developing countries often significantly exceeding that of their Gross Domestic Product).