3、We could afford to reduce defence spending in peacetime without excessive risk.
6、Falling commodity prices are responding to Reagan's economic policy of tight money supply, tax cuts and increased defence spending.
9、Out of the world's 193 sovereign states, it ranks sixth in land area, 13th in economic production, 14th in defence spending and 50th in population.
12、Most may have given up on serious defence spending, and many work hard not to provoke scary powers like Russia and China, but that is not the same thing.
1、Further cuts in defence spending are being considered.
5、As austerity measures, including cuts in defence spending, begin to bite, orders for its flagship Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft have waned.、
10、Bonn's plan to increase defence spending next year by four percent will mean a cut of two percent when inflation is taken into account, he says.
14、The opposition party advocates neither total disarmament nor an increase in defence spending but a middle-of-the-road policy that would leave the situation much as it is at present.
7、Britain will still have the fourth-biggest defence budget in the world and be one of the few NATO countries to meet the alliance's target for defence spending of 2% of GDP.
13、The question is whether to increase defence spending, reallocate existing resources or scale back national ambitions; and that raises the deeper question of what kind of country Britain wants to be.
8、The Balts still need to treat their soldiers better, and to increase defence spending (though so do bigger and richer members from western Europe).
4、President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress want to increase spending on welfare, education and environmental protection; Republicans want to slash those budgets and hike defence spending.
11、That is no less damning a criticism, reflecting the toll on the alliance's fighting capability of inadequate or poorly conceived defence spending by too many of its members (see table).
2、Discretionary defence spending will add $284 billion to the deficit over the same period.
