{"id":189319,"date":"2010-04-17T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/17\/unsurprising-data-point-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2010-04-17T05:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T10:39:00","slug":"unsurprising-data-point-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/17\/unsurprising-data-point-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsurprising Data Point of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Military ranks last in the world on the metric of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story.php?i=4540160&amp;c=&amp;s=TOP\">equipment purchased per dollar spent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>In a study due out March 15, consulting firm McKinsey &amp; Co. examined how efficiently 33 nations that account for 90 percent of worldwide defense expenditures perform a range of functions. The study looked at how these militaries go about doing certain tasks in three key areas: personnel, maintenance and weapon buying.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The United States and Australia are the lowest performing countries with regard to equipment output for every dollar spent,&#8221; McKinsey concludes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brazil had the greatest efficiency of the countries surveyed.<\/p>\n<p>The Soviet Union spent themselves to destruction on huge amounts of military hardware, and it appears that the good old USA is spending itself to destruction on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">tiny<\/span> amounts of military hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Military ranks last in the world on the metric of equipment purchased per dollar spent: In a study due out March 15, consulting firm McKinsey &amp; Co. examined how efficiently 33 nations that account for 90 percent of worldwide defense expenditures perform a range of functions. The study looked at how these militaries &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1008,1016],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-defense-procurement","category-international-commerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}