It shows the distribution of military spending among countries of the world since 1829.
It had me hitting the pause button often asking, "what the heck happened?". The US Civil War and the World Wars are obvious markers on the timeline. For those of you who paid attention in history class, this will have you recalling conflicts which are all but forgotten--from the Mexican American Wars, the Crimean Wars, the Franco Prussian War to the Spanish American War to the Russo-Japanese War. Even the Boer War.
It had me hitting the pause button often asking, "what the heck happened?". The US Civil War and the World Wars are obvious markers on the timeline. For those of you who paid attention in history class, this will have you recalling conflicts which are all but forgotten--from the Mexican American Wars, the Crimean Wars, the Franco Prussian War to the Spanish American War to the Russo-Japanese War. Even the Boer War.