President Donald Trump’s priorities for military spending are taking shape, but investors still don’t seem to know what that means for overall military spending—or defense stocks.

Military Spending % GDP: 6.5 (2019) In 2024 Syria finally overthrew its dictator, Bashir Assad, and is in the process of winding down its civil war. It hosts a Russian naval base with about 2,000 ...

According to 2015 estimates gathered by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the United States was responsible for 36% of the entire world's military spending. Even so ...

WATCH: House approves $895B defense bill that raises military pay, bans coverage of trans care for children of service members The bill passed the House by a vote of 281-140 and will next move to ...

Governments across the world adopted stimulus packages in 2020 to address the COVID-19 pandemic, with those in advanced economies outstripping those in the rest of the world. The resulting high budget ...

An internal mandate from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has instructed the military to propose an 8 percent ...

The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill that averts a government shutdown and provides $6 billion in new spending for ...

According to The Washington Post, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has proposed an 8% reduction in projected U.S. military spending over the next five years. If adopted, this move would be the ...

Republicans pushed through the resolution with a 217-215 party-line vote, approving a plan that would raise spending for the military and security at the U.S.-Mexico border while slashing federal ...