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Global military expenditure trends and the role of the US
The reporting does not contain definitive, up‑to‑the‑minute line‑item operating budgets for individual major U.S. bases in Germany, Italy, or the United Kingdom, so a precise per‑base annual “operatin...
’s three common-funded budgets — the Civil Budget, the Military Budget and — total only a few billion euros a year (roughly €4–5.3 billion in recent public figures), a sum that is vanishingly small co...
Independent work on divides into two broad streams: academic that estimate how much military and non-military assistance is “freed up” for other spending in recipient budgets, and government audit-sty...
s have historically favored higher defense s and often press for increases when in power, a pattern documented by policy analysts and reflected in recent congressional debates calling for “generationa...
provides grants—and in limited cases loans or loan guarantees—funded by U.S. appropriations to enable allied and partner governments to buy U.S.-origin defense articles, services, and training, primar...