最近,美国《华盛顿邮报》对美国最近10年的军费开支动态进行了分析.分析认为,冷战结束后,尽管美国军费预算较冷战时期有了大幅度的消减,但是与其他国家相比,其军费开支仍然要多得多,而且在未来几年内这种情况不会有太大的变化.文章指出,尽管美国的军费开支已从1987年占国民生产总值的6.2%降低到目前的3.5%,但如果按绝对值计算,这一费用实际上仍然保持在原先的水平上.克林顿政府目前已经确定的1998财年的国防预算费用 Recently, the Washington Post made an analysis of the dynamics of U.S. military expenditures over the past 10 years and concluded that after the end of the Cold War, despite the drastic reduction of the U.S. military budget from the Cold War, compared with other countries, The military spending is still much higher and there will not be much change in the coming years, and the article points out that while military spending in the United States has dropped from 6.2% of GNP in 1987 to 3.5% , But if the absolute value of this cost actually remained at the original level. The Clinton administration has now been established defense budget costs for the fiscal year 1998