{"id":14443,"date":"2012-01-26T08:19:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T04:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=14443"},"modified":"2012-01-26T08:20:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T04:20:40","slug":"index-israel-most-militarized-nation-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-politics-analysis\/international-relations-analysis-middle-east\/index-israel-most-militarized-nation-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Index: Israel Most Militarized Nation in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/2012\/01\/26\/index-israel-most-militarized-nation-in-the-world\/global_militarization_index_2012_fact_sheet\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14444\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14444\" title=\"Global_Militarization_Index_2012_Fact_Sheet\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Global_Militarization_Index_2012_Fact_Sheet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bicc.de\/\">Bonn International Center for Conversion<\/a> maintains the Global Military Index, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bicc.de\/uploads\/gmi\/pdf\/Global_Militarization_Index_2012_Fact_Sheet_e.pdf&amp;pli=1\">lists the nations of the world according to the level of militarization<\/a> of their societies. Coming in first again in 2012 is Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the criteria used to determine a country\u2019s ranking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With its Global Militarization Index (GMI), BICC is able to objectively depict worldwide militarization for the first time. The GMI compares, for example, a country\u2019s military expenditure with its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and its health expenditure. It contrasts the total number of military and paramilitary forces in a country with the number of physicians. Finally, it studies the number of heavy weapons available to a country\u2019s armed forces. These and other indicators are used to determine a country\u2019s ranking, which in turn makes it possible to measure the respective level of militarization in comparison to other countries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You\u2019ll notice Iran isn\u2019t even in the top 10 (32nd in 2010). The U.S. was 30th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHARD SILVERSTEIN: The BICC index lists nations according to the militarization of their societies. First again in 2012 is Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":14444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,83,82,171,90],"tags":[18306,18311,18302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}