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Defence spending 2014: the big picture

Defence spending 2014: the big picture

 

According to the 2015 Military Balance, published recently by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), global defence expenditure hit historic highs in 2014. With a total of $1.604 trillion spent, the overall increase is largely attributable to three regions: Asia, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and Russia and the post-Soviet space.

This growth has been accompanied by more assertive, if not overtly belligerent actions by some states in their respective environments, in turn triggering military build-ups at regional level.

 

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Defence budgets in Europe: a Maginot moment?

Defence budgets in Europe: a Maginot moment?

Briefs - No7 - 07 March 2014 Olivier de France

Contrary to popular belief, the Maginot Line was actually a very functional piece of military engineering. Erected in between the two World Wars by France to protect the country from invasion, it ultimately proved to be of no effective military use. With its ground and air support systems hollowed out by financial constraints, and detached from the strategic vision from which it had originated, it turned out to be quite bereft of purpose.

Not unlike France in 1939, Europe in 2014 is confronted with ‘a growing gap between security demand and capability supply’, as the IISS recently put it. As EU member states try to juggle diminishing expenditure and increasing costs in the face of an ever more unstable neighbourhood, is it possible that Europe is trying to maintain its defences by cutting everything that makes them viable?

 

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