The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is widely considered the largest peace-time military alliance in the world. The 32 ...

Global military spending reached a record high of $2.44 trillion in 2023, having grown 6.8% compared to the year before. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI ...

Countries across the world are “bolstering military strength in response to a deteriorating security environment”, said Dr Nan Tian, senior researcher with Sipri’s Military Expenditure and ...

Worldwide military spending, when estimated on the basis of unweighted country averages, has declined by nearly half, from 3.6 percent of GDP during the Cold War period (1970–90) to 1.9 percent of GDP ...

This sudden conflict with the United States fundamentally threatens Canada’s long-standing approach to national defense. But ...

The continent’s leaders hope a surge of investment, to fill a security void left by the United States, can ignite growth. It ...

With a budget up 105%, the Democratic Republic of the Congo stood out as the country with the single largest increase in military spending in 2023 by percentage. Researchers attributed this to the ...