I posted a chart comparing World Military spending in my first post above. Its disappeared, so I guess it had some mechanism to prevent reproduction.
So I'm trying another one, its from:
http://armscontrolcenter.org/issues/securityspending/articles/US_vs_Global/
2008 Defense Expenditure (in billions of current U.S. dollars)
| Country | 2008 Spending |
| United States (including war and nuclear) | 696.3 |
| Rest of NATO | 325.5 |
| Non-NATO Europe | 26.8 |
| Russia | 86.0 |
| Middle East and North Africa | 110.5 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 12.1 |
| South and Central Asia | 41.2 |
| East Asia and Australasia | 131.3 |
| China | 83.5 |
| Latin America and Caribbean | 58.0 |
Global Total: $1.57 trillion
Countries of Interest (in billions of current U.S. dollars)
| Country | 2008 Spending |
| United States (including war and nuclear) | 696.3 |
| Canada | 19.8 |
| China | 83.5 |
| Russia | 86.0 |
| United Kingdom | 60.8 |
| France | 67.2 |
| Germany | 46.9 |
| Japan | 46.0 |
| Italy | 30.9 |
| Saudi Arabia | 38.2 |
| South Korea | 24.2 |
| Israel | 14.8 |
| Taiwan | 10.5 |
| Iran | 9.6 |
| North Korea | ** |
| Pakistan | 4.4 |
| Venezuela | 3.3 |
Table/Chart Notes: U.S. figure includes funding for wars and nuclear weapons. Data from Congressional Research Service, Office of Management and Budget, International Institute for Strategic Studies.