A Newsweek graph illustrates how U.S. defense spending has declined since the last era of great power competition ended with the Cold War. "The United States faces the most challenging and ...

NATO allies have reportedly agreed to hike their defense spending to 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035. One chart ...

Many member countries would have to double defense spending by 2035 to meet new targets, charts show.

Many NATO members lag far behind the U.S. in defense-spending levels and military capabilities. Now they are trying to fix ...

But that’s still in the neighborhood of just 60% of the United States' military spending. Russia, mired in an ongoing war with Ukraine, spent a record $148.9 billion on its military in 2024—a ...

As the graph and the underlying reporting show, U.S. defense spending in 2021 outstripped Chinese by almost $500 billion. Other analyses show it outpaces China by multiple other metrics too. FACT ...

USS Virginia. The U.S. Navy receives around 23% of the total military budget (not including the Marines). It includes the U.S. Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard. The Navy has around ...

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.

The U.S. military. The United States has 1,328,000 active military personnel, which is the third-most in the world, with 799,500 in reserve. The budget was used to import $652.6 million in ...

The US defense budget accounted for 37 percent of total global military spending in 2024. China was the second-highest spender, with an estimated budget of $314 billion that made up for around ...

The fiscal year (FY) 2025 US Department of Defense (DoD) President's Budget Request (PBR) was released on 11 March 2024, with the request coming in at USD849.8 billion.

A Newsweek graph illustrates how U.S. defense spending has declined since the last era of great power competition ended with the Cold War. "The United States faces the most challenging and ...