Decisions on defense spending levels remain as much a product of political and economic realities as they are a response to strategic demands and the security environment. Global defense spending has ...

The House and Senate are headed for a tussle over the annual, must-pass defense spending bill as the upper chamber’s version stands at odds with the budget passed by the House and a proposal from the ...

Upon the release of NATO’s latest set of military expenditure statistics in August, one country stood out as leading the way in terms of many of the key metrics. Since 2022, Poland has become the ...

Belarus has increased its spending on weaponry and military hardware sharply since 2022, budget numbers show. The increase coincides with Russia’s all-out war on Ukraine and has worried its immediate ...

The other is the National Escape Clause (nec), which allows countries to increase defence spending by up to 1.5% of gdp over ...