#defencespending — Public Fediverse posts
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Hensoldt's Order Intake Soars as Middle East Business Remains Limited
Hensoldt's order book is booming, with a surge in contracts that directly reflects recent defence spending decisions, according to CEO Oliver Dörre. The company's order intake has doubled to €2.81 billion, with its order backlog now exceeding €10 billion.
#DefenceSpending #EmergingThreats #Europe #MiddleEast #Aerospace
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“The decisive factor in whether Canada's #defence ambitions succeed will be our capacity to collect, assess, and act on #knowledge over time. This is the true battlespace that will define all others.” #Canada #defencespending #CanadaSky
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The world is plunging into a dangerous spiral of military spending.
The Atlantic allies met this week in Turkey for NATO’s annual summit against a backdrop of sustained growth in global military spending.
Geopolitical tensions, technological revolutions, economic interests and the absence of international treaties point to a sustained acceleration of the global arms race.
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France Tries to Lock Britain Out of EU Defence, Locks Everyone Else In Instead
Paris spent the best part of a year engineering a defence procurement fund specifically designed to keep British arms firms out of the trough. #aircraftcarriers #Balticstates #Brexit #defence #defencespending #entryfee #Europe #France #missiles #rearmamentfund #safe #StormShadow -
France Tries to Lock Britain Out of EU Defence, Locks Everyone Else In Instead
Paris spent the best part of a year engineering a defence procurement fund specifically designed to keep British arms firms out of the trough. #aircraftcarriers #Balticstates #Brexit #defence #defencespending #entryfee #Europe #France #missiles #rearmamentfund #safe #StormShadow -
5 things to know about the UK’s new defence spending plan.
The UK’s much-delayed Defence Investment Plan became a political headache for Keir Starmer’s government and disappointed industry and Britain’s allies.
Even after revisions, the final document published Tuesday, aimed at preparing the country for growing strategic challenges. still leaves Britain short of its NATO spending goals.
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New Video: BREAKING: UK Secretary of Defence John Healey Resigns over Funding of Armed Forces: Starmer Trouble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlgafFPSE0 #Geopolitics #top #UKPolitics #JohnHealey #DefenceSpending #Starmer
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European military independent from the United States?
The Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) has published a report indicating that Europe could achieve military…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #BalticStates #defencespending #Europe #FRANCE #germany #independence #netherlands #Poland #UnitedKingdom #UnitedStatesofAmerica
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Climate finance, defence spending and war
"Pope Leo XIV has said that the world is being “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” who spend billions on war, in comments that will be seen as another sharp escalation in his almost week-long feud with the White House over the US-Israel war on Iran....They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/16/pope-leo-xiv-tyrants-trump-spat
#war #destruction #FossilFuels #ClimateFinance #biodiversity #restoration #education #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #MIC #climate #DefenceSpending -
CW: UK Politics, Global geopolitics, Wars and stuff
The government really need to listen to Lord Robertson. He knows what he's talking about, and the world is no longer a safe place. We need to be prepared for the world that we actually live in, not the world that we'd like it to be.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cje4n5ppgw7o
#Defence #DefenceSpending #UKPolitics #UKMilitary #StrategicDefenceReview #LordRobertson
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#Auspol #AUKUS #DefenceSpending
Saturday Paper June 14 2025
Hugh White
Can Albanese fix Australia’s defence?(Hugh White is emeritus professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University. He is a former deputy secretary of the Department of Defence and wrote Australia’s 2000 Defence White Paper.)
<<The news that Washington is reviewing the AUKUS submarine deal puts a bombshell under Australia’s defence policy and sharpens the debate of recent weeks about defence spending. In that debate, suddenly 3 per cent is the new 2 per cent. For 30 years, 2 per cent of gross domestic product has been widely accepted as the benchmark for responsible defence spending. Recently, the number has drifted up towards 2.5 per cent. Now, under pressure from United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, people, including the Coalition, are seriously considering 3 per cent.
This is real money. Each per cent of GDP means about $28 billion, every year. Defence is important, but it is a big mistake to spend more on it than necessary, because every dollar taken from other priorities for defence makes us a less educated, less healthy and less productive society.
We will never discover how much we need to spend on defence by bandying GDP percentages. In this debate they are close to meaningless, as Anthony Albanese has, to his credit, made clear. The only sensible way to set the defence budget is to build the case step by step. What broad strategic objectives do we want our armed forces to be able to achieve? What operations do they therefore need to be able to perform? What capabilities would perform those operations most cost-effectively? How much do those capabilities cost?>>
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<<We will have to spend [our defence budget] much more wisely, by rigorously applying the logic of defence policy – defining strategic objectives, setting operational priorities, selecting the most cost-effective capabilities, and delivering them as cheaply and efficiently as possible. It is a long time since our defence policy was subjected to this kind of ruthless analysis.>>sharing a “gift” link to the article here. if you are interested and it is still behind a pay wall, please let me know.