First of all, let me talk about the concept of the peak of the cold war. This should be the time when the Soviet Union reached its peak in the middle and late 1970s (including the early 1980s), because at this time, the strength of the two countries was the closest and the competition was the fiercest, especially the Soviet Union, which was aggressive. Therefore, historians regard this period as the peak of the hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union.
There are few statistics about the gross national product (GNP) of the two countries at that time, and the public information is more about the gross domestic product (GDP). These two concepts can actually reflect the overall economic strength of a country, so there is no distinction. I don't have the specific data of the two at that time, and this time span is several years, so it is not convenient to list them one by one. But I remember very clearly. I have read the information. At that time, the GDP of the United States was about one or two trillion dollars. As for the GDP of the Soviet Union, it was generally about 60% of that of the United States in the 1970s and reached about 80% in the early 1980s. As for military spending, the United States has hundreds of billions of dollars. As for the Soviet Union, military spending figures have always been opaque, and various statistical calibers are different, so it is difficult to count. I only know that some experts have estimated that it is close to the level of the United States in the 1970 s, but it is still less. After the 1980s, it reached more than 200 billion US dollars, equivalent to that of the United States.
As for the size of the army, I can tell you for sure that it is definitely the size of the Soviet Union. The Soviet army pursues quantitative advantages in personnel and equipment, which is the experience gained by the Soviet army from World War II and a realistic choice subject to its own scientific and technological strength. In the 1970s, the Soviet army maintained about 4.6 million troops, including 6,543.8+0.95 million army troops, 4,654.38+0.000 air force troops, 528,000 air force troops, 446,000 navy troops, 366,000 strategic rocket troops, as well as headquarters organs, military academies and railway construction troops, totaling about 700,000. As for equipment, the army has more than 50,000 main battle tanks, the air force and air defense forces have tens of thousands of combat aircraft, and the navy has more than 2 100 ships with a total tonnage of 4150,000 tons. ...
At the same time, the size of the American army is only about half that of the Soviet army. And I also provide you with two proofs: first, the number of tanks in one country of the Soviet Union is twice that of the entire NATO countries combined (the United States is only one country of NATO); In the 1980s, US President Ronald Reagan put forward the slogan of building a "thousand-ship navy", while in the 1970s, the Soviet Navy had more than 2,000 ships.
However, on the whole, the technology of the US military is still superior to that of the Soviet Union. American allies have more obvious advantages than Soviet allies.