Today, the U.S. collectively spends $100 billion a year on policing and a further $80 billion on incarceration.
Just the spending on policing is larger than what other countries spend on military. Actually, the only country that spends more on military is China [1], after taking in incarceration costs, it is 2.5 times the military expenditure of India.
[1] https://www.sipri.org/publications/2021/sipri-fact-sheets/tr...
"the only country that spends more on military is China"
1 1 United States 778 4.4 -10 3.7 4.8 39
2 2 China [252] 1.9 76 [1.7] [1.7] [13]
3 3 India 72.9 2.1 34 2.9 2.7 3.7
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I assume you missed that. The comparison is not between militaries, but US' police vs the military.
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"National defense spending was 1.267992 trillion yuan, 100% of the budgeted figure. Public security expenses totaled 183.59 billion yuan, 100.2% of the budgeted figure. "
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/download/20210313budget.pdf