As soon as the cannon sounds, the gold is ten thousand taels, how much money is burned in modern war

Mondo Military Updated on 2024-02-08

That's rightThe cannon rang out ** 10,000 taels,Whether ancient or modern, war is a very depleting act of resources.

In modern times, because of the requirements of military technology for industry, and because of the increase in the intensity of war brought about by the development of this industrial technology, war has become more and more "expensive".

So how much money does modern warfare burn?

The consumption of resources by war is divided into three partsThey are the consumption of human resources on the surface, the social turmoil brought by the war, and the risk of defeat.

The first point is the best to understand, once the war breaks out, no matter how good and expensive ** is on the battlefield, it is also a consumable.

And the closest war to us isThe ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict,In this war, both Russia and Ukraine have consumed at least tens of billions of dollars worth of ** in both years of war.

This can be seen by comparing the military expenditures of the two sides.

Russia's military spending in 2021 was $61.7 billion, rising to $86.4 billion in 2022, and officially exceeding $100 billion by 2023.

In terms of data alone, Russia, which is in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, is increasing its military spending by about 20 billion US dollars per year.

In factRussia and Ukraine are now spending a lot of money on their military, because the soldiers of these two countries say that it is "gray livestock", and the labor cost is outrageously low.

If a country like the United States with extremely high labor costs fights the Russia-Ukraine conflict, then these hundreds of thousands of ** will go down, and it is estimated that the national finances will collapse directly.

On the first side, both Russia and Ukraine are also able to save provinces, and they use "large quantities" of drones to strike at each other's ground military forces.

ContrastThe United States used Tomahawk missiles in large quantities during the Gulf WarNow the use of expenses between Russia and Ukraine is cheap enough.

If you really want to talk about the cost of **, the ** cost of the United States is called more.

The current purchase price of the most common "Tomahawk" missile in the United States is also about $200,000, and when the "Tomahawk" missile type C D came out and the production line was not yet rolled out, the "Tomahawk" missile exceeded $1 million.

In the Gulf War, the United States used nearly 300 "Tomahawk" missiles at one time, and at the cost of $1 million per "Tomahawk" missile, the United States spent $300 million on "Tomahawk" missiles alone in this war that lasted only one and a half months.

And missiles are already in the "cheap" category in the war, because they are used in relatively small quantities.

At present, even if the tanks, armored vehicles and various artillery pieces of Russia and Ukraine in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict are not destroyed, the daily cost of use is not a small amount.

As for the social turmoil, it is mainly concentrated on the impact on normal social production, the failure of the military system, and the tearing up of society.

A country's human and industrial capacity is limited in terms of its impact on normal social production, and when you set aside a part for war, your normal social production decreases.

The most typical case is Japan during World War II. During World War II, Japan maintained an army of more than one million on the Chinese battlefield and fought naval battles with the U.S. military in the Pacific.

By the end of World War II, Japan's domestic industrial production was all for the elderly, the weak, women and children, and agriculture was basically carried out by the elderly.

In 1939, Japan's total grain production was about 15 million tons, and by 1945, Japan's grain production was only about 5.8 million tons, only 1.3 levels at the beginning of World War II.

For any country, the fall of normal social production to the current level of 1 3 is a devastating blow to its economy.

As for the problem of the military system, the problem of the military-industrial complex and the army has always been the main problem in the development of various affairs. Nowhere was this more evident than in the Soviet Union and the United States.

The influence of the Soviet military-industrial complex was so great that it literally turned the USSR into a "Soviet-owned state".

And the problem of the U.S. **team** has become stronger and stronger after the Cold War, what $6 million for 9 goats, $1,000 for a coffee pot, etc., are countless.

What's even worse is that the problem of the US **team** has become a big one, and it has become a situation of who checks and who dies.

During the Trump era, he wanted to audit the military spending of the war in Afghanistan, but all the accountants sent out were knocked down on the plane, which shows how terrifying the US **team** is.

As for the issue of social division, any war, whether it is a just patriotic war or an unjust war of aggression, once it is prolonged, will eventually lead to the emergence of a large number of anti-war groups or even groups that defect to the enemy in the country.

This kind of tearing down has a great impact on society, and if it is not handled well, it will lead to the collapse of the regime.

During the First World War, the "crown of Europe was scattered" because the damage to civilians in the First World War was so great that many countries had to reform or even overthrow their regimes.

As for the risk of defeat, this question is also well understood.

War is risky, and if it is defeated, the whole country will face the catastrophe of destruction.

The Chinese already know a lot about thisThe aggression of modern European powers against China led China to sign a series of unequal treaties and make China a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country.

Later, during the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, China's reparations to Japan helped Japan complete its initial industrialization, and Japan's ambitions began to swell until the 918 Incident in 1931 and the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937.

With the exception of China, many modern powers have suffered great losses because of wars.

The most typical is the Soviet Union, which fought the war in Afghanistan for 10 years, which seriously catalyzed the problems of the domestic military-industrial complex in the Soviet Union, which indirectly led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Another example is the United States, and the series of wars in the Middle East have also caused great harm to the country.

This series of wars has spawned an arc of resistance that has resulted in the entire Middle East being anti-American except for Israel.

Moreover, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, in which the United States failed, also seriously weakened the authority of the United States and led to the weakening of the United States' control over the world.

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References: 1] Reference news: "French media: Russia's military budget will double in 2023".

2] Guangming Network "Objective Comparison of Dongfeng 10 Cruise Missile and Tomahawk Cruise Missile? 》

3] Finance Associated Press, December 28 -- Russia's finance minister said that Russia's federal budget spending in 2023 will reach 322 trillion rubles, more than originally planned by 2906 trillion rubles

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