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Europe on Track to Become Region With Fastest-Growing Defense Expenditures - Report

Europe on Track to Become Region With Fastest-Growing Defense Expenditures - Report Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/military/202102251082190023-europe-on-track-to-become-region-with-fastest-growing-defense-expenditures -report/ Even as the Kremlin’s military budget continues to shrink, Western military leaders are claiming Russia poses an “existential threat” to them, justifying greater and greater expenditures on their own weapons of war. A new report by a British think tank has warned that if present budgetary trends continue, Europe could become the world’s fastest-growing region in terms of military spending. On Thursday, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) think tank released its Military Balance 2021 report, a broad annual measure of military trends around the globe. In the report, the academics note that defense spending by European nations, particularly those part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Beijing naval expansion has driven 2020 world military expenditure to a record

Full article The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said military spending reached US$1.8 trillion last year, a 3.9% increase in real terms over 2019. Global military spending, driven in part by Chinese naval expansion, reached record levels in 2020 despite the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and ensuing economic contraction, a British think-tank said on Thursday. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said military spending reached US$1.8 trillion last year, a 3.9% increase in real terms over figures for 2019. The London-based think-tank said in its annual “Military Balance” publication that expenditure rose “despite the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent contraction in global economic output”.

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