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Ukraine currently allocates all of its tax revenues to its military. In such a tight fiscal space, it will be challenging for Ukraine to keep increasing its military spending,
Russia once again significantly increased its military spending, widening the spending gap with Ukraine,
said Diego Lopes da Silva, SIPRI’s senior researcher Gone are the highly trained troops and great campaign plans. This is now a conscript war with negligible front-line movement,
he said, calling it a “meat grinder”. The operational map remains largely stagnant,
Major military capability takes years to develop,
said Lukas Milevski, a lecturer in international studies at Leiden University The rapid spending increases among European NATO members were driven mainly by the ongoing Russian threat and concerns about possible US disengagement within the alliance,
said Jade Guiberteau Ricard, a researcher with SIPRI It takes time to train people, to buy the stuff, to build the stuff, to deliver the stuff,
It’s capabilities that matter, and how those capabilities are built and controlled,
said Hugo Bromley, an economy and geopolitical expert at Cambridge University’s Centre for Geopolitics The increase was expected, though it was still somewhat shocking to see it unfold,
retired US colonel Seth Krummrich said, as it reflected the end of US supremacy on the global stage I do believe we will see further increases in the years ahead. Europe recognises the need to stand on its own and not rely as heavily on the United States,
The scarce assets America needs, particularly in an Indo-Pacific focus, are the very high-end [air]lift, missiles – capabilities that the current focus of European expenditure is not designed to create … because these are the capabilities that nation states wish most to keep to themselves,
By the time you actually need to pay for the stuff, all those exemptions that came with Rearm Europe have expired, and the year-by-year continuation doesn’t provide the stability that defence policy needs,
In late July 2024 the budget was amended to boost military spending by nearly US$13.5 billion, with more than half of the additional amount aimed at increasing funding for salaries and support for the families of deceased or injured soldiers,
Germany became the biggest spender in Central and Western Europe for the first time since its reunification,
The impact of sanctions on Iran severely limited its capacity to increase spending,
This really speaks to the heightened geopolitical tensions,
We've seen in 2024 that 18 out of the 32 NATO countries reached the two-percent GDP spending target, which is the highest since the founding of the alliance,
Countries have to make trade-offs in their budgetary decisions,
The latest policies adopted in Germany and many other European countries suggest that Europe has entered a period of high and increasing military spending that is likely to continue for the foreseeable future."
And according ... according to SIPRI Major military spenders in the Asia-Pacific region are increasing resources into advanced military capabilities,
emphasized SIPRI's Nan Tian
