Mr Romney promises to set a floor for the defence budget of 4% of GDP, and plough any efficiency savings back into the armed forces.
罗姆尼承诺为国防开支的下限定为GDP的4%,并把提高效率节约的资金重新用在军队上。
But if you have Pakistan and China as your neighbour... well perhaps this defence budget could be too little, too late!
但是如果你有巴基斯坦和中国这样的领军,这些钱可能太少了!
Most developing countries are still military pipsqueaks: China does not yet own a single aircraft-carrier, and its defence budget is less than the annual increase in America「s.
Britain will still have the fourth-biggest defence budget in the world and be one of the few NATO countries to meet the alliance」s target for defence spending of 2% of GDP.
However, a long-term deal is likely to include cutbacks to the defence budget that are even greater than the USD400 billion originally proposed by Obama in April, according to analysts.