The ambitions of the UK Min-istry of Defence (MoD) to field a fully equipped and trained 'warfighting' division of 40,000 troops will only be realised with an increase in defence spending, according to a UK parliamentary defence committee. In its 29 April report into the 'Strategic Defence...
The finance ministry declined to comment on the increase in defence spending. Thousands of civilians have been killed in Ukraine and more than 14 million people have fled their homes in a conflict that Russia says was necessary to counter Western aggression and protect Russian...
Canadian defence minister Bill Blair has sought to downplay his country’s miss, preferring instead to highlight future spending increases approved by Ottawa. “Our defence spending next year alone will increase 27%,” Blair said on 1 May at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute in Ottawa...
The prime minister announced on Tuesday he was pledging to increase spending by £75bn by 2030 to put Britain on a "war footing" against threats from China and Russia.
Two days later, the prime minister will be back in the UK, where Jeremy Hunt, his chancellor, will confirm as part of his budget a widely-anticipated but modest increase in defence spending - well short by several billion pounds of what military insiders believe is needed...
Lord Stirrup said Vladimir Putin is testing the resolve of Nato members in the stand-off in Ukraine, as well as the dramatic increase in intimidating flights by Russian air force planes, including bombers, close to UK air space.Air Chief Marshal Lord Stirru...
The first problem is cash. In 2020 the government boasted of the biggest sustained increase in defence spending for 30 years. It spends just over £50bn ($64bn) on defence, a sum that crosses NATO’s threshold of 2% of GDP. But a fifth of the budget goes onnuclear weapons. The con...
European leaders would worry about American security guarantees and feel inclined to increase their defense spending to deter additional aggression from Putin. Moreover, a Trump victory would also bring into question the future of the AUKUS agreement, which is expected to cost $368bn over the comi...
European leaders would worry about American security guarantees and feel inclined to increase their defense spending to deter additional aggression from Putin. Moreover, a Trump victory would also bring into question the future of the AUKUS agreement, which is expected to cost $368bn over the comi...
There is now a “huge opportunity to use this big increase in defence spending to overhaul the EU’s defence capabilities — and for the first time do it in a joined up way, where countries stop this silly inefficient thing of ignoring the benefits of joined-up purchases”, says one senio...