defense budget of the us
The U.S. military budget is $824.1 billion. That's the budget for Fiscal Year 2018 which covers the period October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. Military spending is the second largest federal government expenditure, after Social Security at $1 trillion. U.S. military spending is larger than the next nine countries combined. There are four components. First is the $574 billion base budget for the Department of Defense. Second is the Overseas Contingency Operations for DoD to fight ISIS ($64.6 billion). There's more to military spending than the Department of Defense. Many other agencies are involved with protecting our nation.