military spending

It is stepping up deployments across East Asia and purging top brass to tackle graft

It highlights the Asian nation’s ‘arsenal’ of nuclear, maritime, conventional long-range strike, cyber and space power

The country has been exploring a range of fighter jet options

With the tide turning decidedly global during the first half of 2025, more nuanced investment strategies may be required

For the continent, boosting defence spending will crowd out vital investments and sustain Russia’s fossil-fuel revenues

[STOCKHOLM] The world’s military expenditure reached US$2.72 trillion in 2024, an increase of 9.4 per cent from 2023 and the steepest year-on-year rise since at least the end of the Cold War, accordin...

The country’s constitutional ‘debt brake’ has been amended to boost defence spending, limited to military expenditure. An opportunity to invest in the country’s economic future is squandered.

This includes US$1.25 billion in military aid drawn from US stockpiles and a US$1.22 billion Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative package

Intel has officially qualified for as much as US$3.5 billion in federal grants to make semiconductors for the Pentagon, according to people familiar with the matter, after the chipmaker reached a bind...