The United States has the largest, most expensive military in the entire world. In light of the Trump administration’s new budget, which proposes a sizable boost to military spending while making drastic, in some cases debilitating, cuts to domestic programs, it’s a fact worth repeating.

The US military has a vastly larger airforce, navy, and number of aircraft carriers than any of its closest rivals. While it commands less manpower than China and India, its nuclear stockpile — a mind-boggling 6,970 warheads — is second only to Russia. The massive three hundred warheads held by France in third place looks piddling by comparison. According to a 2015 Credit Suisse report, all of this and more means the United States far outmatches any other country in terms of military strength.

This military dominance comes with a staggering price tag: $622 billion in 2016, or about 40 percent of the entire world’s military spending. In 2014, the US military cost more than that of the next nine countries combined. In 2012, by one estimate, it was the next thirteen combined.