Trump signs orders banning openly transgender service members from the U.S. military and suppressing any diversity ...

The Pentagon rolled out its largest-ever innovation and modernization budget earlier this year, requesting $145 billion from Congress for fiscal 2024. The House's FY24 National Defense Authorization ...

Nevertheless, trends in military spending do reveal something about a country's capacity for coercion. Policymakers are currently debating the appropriate level of U.S. military spending given ...

Algeria’s drive to modernize its military has fueled Middle East defense spending trends ... $195.4 billion in 2024 from $160.4 billion in 2021, marking its fastest period of growth for a ...

House Republicans have missed another deadline to produce a massive budget package of tax cuts and slashed spending. Instead, ...

BEIRUT — The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has allocated $78 billion for defense spending in 2025, up from $75.8 billion spent in 2024, Governor of the General Authority for Military Industries (GAMI ...

While there is a general endorsement of the rise in military spending (an increase of 30 percent in nominal terms from 2021 to 2024), there remains a cautious reluctance among the public to support ...

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The Cabinet has approved a draft initial budget for fiscal 2025, the third year of the government’s five-year plan to spend a total of 43 trillion yen ($272 billion) on national defense.

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has recommended a boost in defense spending by about $50 billion more than the current 2026 projections, a move that could push the ...

announced a 9.53% rise in its 2025-2026 defense budget as the country grapples with multiple security challenges, headlined by Pakistan on its western border and tensions with China to the north.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Cyprus’ Minister of Defence Vasilis Palmas, left, and his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias review a ...