Military Might
When your greatest enemy is Iran, and you have oil reserves that are worth trillions of dollars, you’ve got to have a powerful military. Saudi Arabia allocates more than 10% of its GDP on military expenses. In fact Saudi Arabia comes in fourth place globally for the highest military expenditure – 63.7 billion U.S. dollars a year.
Military Might
Its Neighbors
Saudi Arabia has a number of interesting neighboring countries. It has Jordan and Iraq in the north, Kuwait in the northeast, Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates off to the east, Oman to the southeast and Yemen to the south.
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Its Neighbors
