Global military spending this year has reached its highest level since the end of the Cold War, highlighting a new phase of geopolitical challenges and threats, according to research from the ...

The world spent more than $2.7 trillion on militaries in 2024 — the largest number since 1988, which marked the end of the ...

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 wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and pressure from Trump, helped drive a massive boost in global military spending last year, a Swedish think tank says.

Worldwide military expenditure surged to $2.7 trillion in 2024, marking the sharpest annual increase since the Cold War, ...

The United States' and its allies' share of world military spending fell from 2005 to 2010. It is projected to fall further, to 63 percent by 2015, even if U.S. spending as a share of GDP holds up ...

World military expenditure had the steepest year-on-year rise since at least the end of the Cold War ... combined spending was $1.64 trillion, SIPRI said. At $997 billion, the US represented ...

NATO foreign ministers are debating a U.S. demand for a big increase in defense spending, President Donald Trump's ...

The world is arming itself at the fastest rate since near the end of the Cold ... military spending, which will lead to further global increases in the coming years,” the report said. The United ...

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — The world is arming itself at the fastest rate since near the end of the Cold ... defense budget of $64.8 billion. China followed the US in overall military spending ...