military budgets (defense budgets)

Inside Defense has a new, in-depth look at how GOP defense hawks worked for months publicly and behind the scenes on Capitol Hill to win a historic increase in military spending. The story of how lawmakers increased the Pentagon's budget -- despite mandatory spending caps, Washington gridlock and ...

On Tuesday, CNN reported that Trump has privately floated the idea of using that military budget to fund construction of a border wall with Mexico. Trump discussed that idea in a private meeting last week with House Speaker Paul Ryan, a source familiar with the conversations said, as he reviewed the ...

Despite their fondness for broad, empty talking points about “building up” a “depleted military,” those who push for larger defense budgets are not the main culprits. Who among us hasn't heard the line that the U.S. spends more “than all other countries combined” on national defense without any attempt to ...

FILE – In this March 13, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he reviews border wall prototypes in San Diego. Trump is floating the idea of using the military's budget to pay for his long-promised border wall with Mexico. Trump raised the idea to House Speaker Paul Ryan at a ...

That could create a challenge for the military to wisely budget and spend the hikes it will get in the $700 billion defense budget this year and the agreed-upon $716 billion budget next year, Frelinghuysen said during a budget hearing with the leaders of the Air Force. The Air Force, which is the biggest buyer ...

It's not often the public gets to -- or chooses to -- weigh in directly about what the defense budget should be. The folks at the Center for Strategic and International Studies gave anyone interested enough a chance to do just that. Read on to see what Mark Cancian, a member of our Board of Contributors, ...

The president's fiscal year 2019 defense budget request reinvigorates America's strategic thinking and capabilities, Defense Department officials told the House Armed Services Committee yesterday. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy John C. Rood and Air Force Gen. John E. Hyten, commander of U.S. ...

The Chinese government recently announced a near 10% increase in their military budget for 2018. ... "A large part of the growth of the defense budget is to make up for the low military spending in the past and is mainly used to upgrade equipment and improve the welfare of servicemen and women and ...

China military budget is going to aircraft carriers (nuclear-powered carriers are a near certainty), nuclear-powered submarines, stealth fighters, ballistic missiles, missile defense systems, space-based capabilities, quantum communications and artificial intelligence (AI). Here is a Nextbigfuture infographic ...

This appears to be part of a wider trend where China, after the decade-long double-digit increases in its defense spending, now seems to be settling down for high single-digit hikes. Earlier, China's defense budget increase rate was 10.7 percent in 2013, 12.2 percent in 2014, 10.1 percent in 2015 and ...

China's increase in military spending for 2018 was proportionate and low, and Beijing has not been goaded into an arms race with the United States, state media said on Tuesday. "China's defense budget is neither the largest in size - it accounts for just one-fourth of the military spending of the United ...

Defense funding is on the rise, bolstered by an agreement on higher federal budget caps. In a Feb. 27 webinar, Bloomberg Government analysts Robert Levinson and Cameron Leuthy discussed the details of President Donald Trump's fiscal 2019 defense budget request. Among their findings: About 55 ...

As part of the recent deal to keep the government open, Congress agreed to increase the FY 2018 defense budget to $700 billion—an increase of $108 billion, or 18 percent, above the proposed 2017 budget—and the FY 2019 budget to $716 billion. This means that since Trump took office, the defense ...

On February 19, Singapore announced its budget allocations for 2018. Though the focus was predominantly on domestic items such as an impending tax hike and spending on transportation, the country's allocation for defense also bears closer attention as it is rooted in several broader trends currently ...

The Trump administration last week unveiled a $716 billion defense budget request for fiscal 2019. That includes $686 billion for the Pentagon, split between $617 billion for the base budget and $69 billion for a war fund known as the Overseas Contingency Operations account. The money would add ...

Even with the spending caps of recent years, the military budget has been robust by historical standards. Todd Harrison, a military budget specialist at the Center for Security and International Studies, says military funding has been near the inflation-adjusted peak levels of the armed forces buildup during ...

The shortfalls in Indian defense budget allocations become even more serious when compared to China's military spending. Earlier in the month, China announced its defense spending for 2018 at around 1.1 trillion yuan ($174.5 billion). Though that is almost certainly lower than the actual defense budget, ...

Yes, China's economy grew by 12.5 percent per annum from 1998 to 2007, but the defense budget expanded by nearly 16 percent every year. This trend has ... This sum is greater than the entire defense budgets of Japan, India, the United Kingdom, and France, and almost as much as Russia. In other ...

Communist Party leaders have long kept details of the defense budget a closely guarded secret, and analysts say the annual percentage disclosed at the meetings of the National People's Congress is only the tip of the iceberg. Analysts tell VOA the disclosed amount could move back into the double-digit ...