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On Comparing Wars

by Eric Rauchway

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I still believe that from 1941 to 1945, the United States was at war in a much more dedicated, if not total way, than it is now.
thirty and forty percent of its GDP on defensearound four percent of our GDP on defenseCorrelates of Wartable 496

Of course these are not the only measures of dedication or totality. But they are the most readily comparable.