Nov 21, 2025
Most Viewednato 2% spend
NATO’s long-standing 2% of GDP defence guideline — agreed after 2014 — has been largely met across the alliance in 2025, with NATO projecting all allies will meet or exceed 2% that year and European a...
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Most ViewedHow much does each NATO member contribute to the NATO Security Investment Programme (NSIP) in 2026?
Public documents and secondary reporting set the 2026 common-funded ceilings and explain how bills are split, but none of the provided sources supplies a complete, published per‑country 2026 NSIP paym...
Dec 12, 2025
Most ViewedWhich countries have received the most US foreign military financing since 2000?
Available public datasets and government pages show that Foreign Military Financing (FMF) is the U.S. program that channels grants and loans to allies to buy U.S. weapons, services and training . Deta...
Jan 31, 2026
What arms manufacturers and companies benefited from previous wars?
— led by giants such as , , , and — have repeatedly profited from wars and spikes in military spending, and and industry rankings show their revenues and market dominance rising when conflicts intensi...
Jan 7, 2026
How does Germany's defense spending as a percentage of GDP compare to France and the UK?
Germany has historically spent less of its GDP on defence than the United Kingdom and roughly the same or slightly less than France in recent years; in 2023 German defence outlays were about 1.6% of G...
Nov 1, 2025
Does the us have the most nuclear bombs
The simple claim "Does the US have the most nuclear bombs?" is false on the best available counts: in the most recent public tallies. Multiple respected trackers and compilations from 2024–2025 consis...
Jan 29, 2026
Is ICE budget larger than china's military budget
The short answer is : even the largest proposed funding packages reported in 2025–26 are a fraction of ’s military spending; China’s defense outlays are measured in the low hundreds of billions of dol...
Jan 28, 2026
How did NATO reallocate common‑funded shares after the 2022–2024 funding negotiations and which countries saw the largest percentage changes?
’s 2021–2024 renegotiation of cost‑sharing cut the traditional U.S. concessionary share of common‑funded budgets from roughly the low‑22% range to about 16% for programs agreed in 2021–2024, a shift d...
Jan 22, 2026
What are the political and economic trade‑offs for NATO countries aiming to meet the 5% by 2035 target?
’s 5% by 2035 pledge—3.5% for core defence and 1.5% for resilience and security-related spending—creates a sharp set of political and economic trade‑offs: it can materially strengthen deterrence and i...
Jan 19, 2026
Which indicators best predict escalation from regional conflict to global war in contemporary nuclear geopolitics?
The clearest predictors that a regional conflict will leap to a global war in today’s nuclear landscape are great‑power entanglement combined with eroding alliance credibility, the breakdown of arms‑c...
Dec 13, 2025
Can coastal states interdict stateless vessels in their exclusive economic zones under UNCLOS?
UNCLOS explicitly allows boarding and other enforcement against stateless vessels on the high seas, while coastal-state enforcement powers inside the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) are more limited and...
Nov 21, 2025
Which countries have the most survivable geography in a full-scale nuclear war in 2025?
Most recent reporting and peer-reviewed studies converge on a short list of places likely to fare better than others in a full-scale nuclear exchange: Australia, New Zealand and a handful of remote is...
Oct 25, 2025
How much money was supplied on defense in the last presidential term versus the current term?
The available analyses indicate that defense-related outlays rose substantially in the period covering 2020–2024, with private firms receiving and the United States accounting for . The FY2025 U.S. de...
Oct 24, 2025
safest country in nuclear war updated late 2025 resources
No country is truly “safe” in a full-scale nuclear war; modern analyses show rising nuclear risks, severe environmental effects, and that relative safety depends on distance from targets, latitude, fo...
Oct 17, 2025
Is italy supplying weapons to Israel to use in gaza?
Italy supplies some military equipment to Israel but is not identified as a primary source of weapons used in Gaza; while recent domestic actions—such as the blocking of containers at Ravenna and publ...
Jan 29, 2026
This shows how nuclear weapons transformed fear into confrontation, reinforcing insecurities rather than reflecting strategies of aggression.
remade international politics by converting existential fear into a perpetual posture of confrontation: they deterred large-scale wars between major powers while simultaneously institutionalizing mutu...
Dec 21, 2025
What role does Israel play in the global arms trade and military technology exports?
Israel is a mid-sized but fast-growing player in the global arms market whose specialised, battle‑tested technologies — especially missiles, air‑defense, ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissanc...
Dec 9, 2025
Ukraine is opening two agencies (Berlin and Copenhagen) to sell surplus and co-produced weapons
Ukraine has announced a controlled export programme to sell surplus and co‑produced weapons abroad and “two sales offices for weapons produced under co‑production” are to open in Europe (reportedly Be...
Nov 26, 2025
What were the measurable outcomes of NATO burden-sharing pressure and US troop withdrawals on European defense spending and regional stability?
European defense spending has risen sharply since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine: EU/EEA defence expenditures reached about €343 billion in 2024 and are estimated to hit roughly €381–392 billion (≈...
Oct 21, 2025
do isreal have nukes
Israel is widely assessed by independent analysts and specialist organizations to possess a nuclear weapons capability, though the Israeli government maintains a deliberate policy of , neither confirm...