Best insight yet. Yes its likely true. The higher your military power, the more you use it as a tool for solving problems, the more your population relies on its economic military industry. And its fundamentally a poor business, as its all a net destruction and asset loss .. A military arms sale ecomony is gambling its ecomonic revenue, can be sustained on the back of the greater destruction its arms cause. Fundamentally unsustainable and likely to come crashing down.