How can military expenditure increase under capitalism while over time posing less of a burden on a countries finances? Why are drastic increases unlikely to be needed?

With the economic growth unleashed in a capitalist social system, military expenditures can increase if needed even as military spending as a fraction of the economy drops over time. A drastic increase in military spending likely will not be needed, because the countries copying our policies, whether reluctantly or not, will tend to move toward a less statist, more capitalist social system. Over time, as our trade increases and social values converge, other countries become more prosperous, and the peoples of the world have more and more to peacefully gain from each other. People elsewhere start to see us as friends and allies, and this drastically reduces the potential threat of military aggression.

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