Tighten the defences! They're coming!

Making European Defense a Reality

Its defense expenditures have an even faster pace.

Defense expenditures are proving to be the easiest of targets.

A considerable amount of money was appropriated for the national defense.

The next day, the Russians attack again, and Kolya escapes in the confusion.

The second barrage was over a more serious matter, regarding defense spending.

Dire warnings from Pentagon over potential defense cuts

Russia spends more on internal security than it does on national defense.

Defense expenditures consume between one third and one half of the national budget.

But its defense spending has grown almost twice as fast as its GDP.

The offensive into and around Iraq's second city of Basra will be no easier.

Congrats for the Syrian SyriaCivilDef heroes for winning our hearts and losing a stone prize.

By integrating its defense expenditures and increasing their size, Europe would hit two birds with one stone.

Like the former Soviet Union, the US will have to carry out perestroika and cut defense spending.

Germany s vision of European defense is very different from the French and British perspectives.

The reason Europeans are reluctant to increase defense spending is expense.

But the same is true of money spent on, say, national defense.

But it is time to look at missile defense as another opportunity to bring us together.

But Russia also must decide to view missile defense as an opportunity, rather than a threat.

And we must face up to the reality that, at long last, we may have to pay for our defense.

Having long since collected the peace dividend, the main protagonists of EDI are still reducing their defense spending between 1998 and 1999, France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom reduced their combined defense expenditure by a further 10 billion dollars.

Israel s leaders, in particular, have sought to reinforce the defenses against the anti Semitism that still persists in the world.

We accept paying a high and inefficient cost for national defense against what are often unknown enemies.

Despite their elite status, the Guard lacked the skill to hold their ground or inflict casualties. Of course, US forces had better equipment, but well trained forces can sometimes offset technical disadvantages to score kills if not to win.

By limiting strategic missile defense, the old treaty provides a certain predictability of deterrence for all nuclear weapon states.

Despite their elite status, the Guard lacked the skill to hold their ground or inflict casualties.

The first question is how much the US should spend on defense and foreign policy.

It wasn't military superiority that sustained the Kurds' resistance against ISIS, many believe, but their dedication.

a massive increase in defense expenditures, fueled by two fruitless wars, but going well beyond that

Even economic growth will not prevent a tradeoff between defense and welfare spending for Europeans.

The US is allocating more money for defense today than it did during the war against Hitler or the Cold War.

The Anti Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty with the former Soviet Union banning missile defense has been cancelled.

It may be argued that the Europeans should try to close this chasm, by increasing their own defense spending.

Given this spectacular economic performance, Americans could spend more on defense than the rest of the world combined.

The fighting prostitutes from the first City still hold a security perimeter around their native slums, against the besieging forces of darkness.

Japan now spends more than 40 billion a year on defense and maintains one of the world s most diverse and modern militaries.

Singapore has invested enough in its military defense to make itself seem as indigestible as a poisoned shrimp to neighbors that it wishes to deter.

One key reason for the superiority of the US in research is the size and the composition of defense expenditure.

As India worries about instability among its neighbors, defense spending will likely rise in the year ahead.

The so called Chicago School has mounted a robust defense of its rational expectations based approach, rejecting the notion that a rethink is required.

But Europeans are showing little taste for increased defense spending, Iraq or no Iraq.

Europe as a whole currently devotes only 1.6 of its GDP to defense, compared to 4.8 for the US. It is the only world region where military expenditures are decreasing.

Even before America and its allies began their bombing campaign against Afghanistan's terrorist infrastructure, India's expenditures on defense were rising fast. In the fiscal year ending in March 2002 the government budgeted 731.4 billion rupees (US 15.2) for defense, up 12 from the previous fiscal year.

The most common explanation for all of these changes is that Kim is circling the wagons around himself and the Young General.