Exactly the point. Our GDP will never permit us to have a military the size and spectrum of the USA.
I'm pushing a narrow point. The line the original poster implies between being "warlike" and otherwise lies in some gray area of 4.06% and 2.4%
I say not quite.
US/UK % of GDP in 2005
Instead of bailing out fat cat bankers who have been writing blank checks to people who cant pay the bills
A red herring, albeit an understandable one. If the current economic crisis hadn't occured, I'd suggest that Downing Street's attention to the needs of the Brit mil wouldn't be any different.