Trump's plan for a huge increase in defense spending next fiscal year would mean billions more for equipment and training.

Australia is spending more on defence – but without money going to AI, cybersecurity and space technology our military risks being stuck in the past.

Italy will meet NATO's 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) target on defence spending this year through a series of accounting changes, Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said at a parliamentary ...

In the financial year (FY) 2025-26 ... compared to an annual increase of 9 percent in defence spending, total central government expenditure increased at an annual rate of 10 percent.

The National Party-led government’s plan to lift defence spending from 1 to 2 percent of GDP, as it prepares to join US-led ...

the government said. Sweden, which has not been at war for two centuries, has doubled defence spending over the past four years as it looks to reinforce a military starved of investment since the ...

Defence spending increases are ... Military experts criticised the government last year when it announced a $50 billion defence funding boost over the next decade, with only $5.7 billion to ...

The Albanese government will bring forward some of its $50 billion increase in defence spending in next week’s budget in a bid to avoid being outflanked by the Coalition over support for the ...

The figure was already baked into the government’s long-term spending ... defence budget. “There’s nothing to compensate Defence for the high rates of inflation over the past three years ...

It’s a major change in ... have assumed years ago.” Leaders of the conservative Union bloc agreed with the centre-left Social Democrats to exempt military spending over 1% of GDP from the ...