The White House session on Thursday afternoon will make Meloni the first European leader to have face-to-face talks with ...

New Zealand has released its delayed Defence Capability Plan (DCP). The government blueprint lists priorities and investments ...

The OBR has also forecast that overall “pensioner spending”, which includes state pensions but also other forms of support ...

Historically, these reports are intentionally vague and conveniently oversimplified. This year’s announcement is no different ...

Rheinmetall's Armin Papperger expects his company to account for a quarter of Europe's $1.1 trillion defense splurge.

At a time when conventional-minded defense planners are ecstatic over the prospect of a $1 trillion defense budget in FY26, ...

Italy will likely be able to increase its defense spending to reach a NATO target of 2% of gross domestic product as early as ...

Italy will meet NATO's 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) target on defence spending this year, Economy Minister Giancarlo ...

BERLIN, April 17. /TASS/. The European Union may increase its defense spending to 1 trillion euros by 2030, according to Armin Papperger, the CEO of Rheinmetall, Germany's leading defense company.

U.S. military branches are being told to find budget cuts to offset the proposed $50 billion increase in defense spending.

The Chinese Defense Ministry urged the U.S. to "break away from the obsession with hegemony at an early date." ...

A decisive increase in defense spending began in 2022. In March 2025, the European Commission unveiled the ReArm EU program, ...