Clifford May is president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and says that US President Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy has succeeded in forcing European NATO members to step ...

The Pentagon’s annual topline budget weighs in at more than 300 pages. But that’s just the start. There are thousands of ...

Europe has long leaned on the U.S. for some of its expensive military capabilities, including space-based assets and logistics.

In a wide-ranging speech in the Bundestag, the German Chancellor outlined his new government's priorities, including a plan ...

The Department of Defense owns over 70% of the nation’s assets and can’t account for half of them. In fairness, military brass has had plenty of enablers in its failures to tame wild and sometimes ...

President Trump to President Zelensky, February 2025 Imagine Russia deciding to extend its Sahelian sphere of influence ...

The CMI and other independent mediators, including The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, The Berghof Foundation and Inter ...

European leaders have been looking for ways to loosen budgetary rules so they can increase military budgets. But the new ...

Global defense expenditure experienced the highest year-over-year rise since at least the end of the Cold War in 2024 ... to €2 trillion in extra military spending by 2030.

Military expenditures worldwide grew faster in 2024 than at any time since the Cold War. A new report by the Stockholm ...

The world is now rearming at the fastest rate since the Cold War, with a 9.4 percent increase in military spending around the world – the highest rate in figures going back to 1988.