He’s reviving a failed effort from his first term on an issue he’s talked up since even before he became president.

The Trump administration wants to hear this week how NATO's European member countries and Canada plan to boost defense ...

The U.S. government posted a $258 billion budget surplus for April, up 23%, or about $49 billion, from a year earlier, ...

Global military spending reached record highs in 2024, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Compared to 2023, there was a 9.4% increase in defense expenditures.

Global military spending this year has reached its highest level since the end of the Cold War, highlighting a new phase of ...

That's compared to just seven who did so in 2022. Even so, with US ... military outlays since 1949, we've ranked 25 major nations in terms of their percentage of GDP spent on defence, from least to ...

The world is now rearming at the fastest rate since the Cold War, with a 9.4 percent increase in military spending around the world – the highest rate in figures going back to 1988.

An annual report on global military spending shows that Ukraine is spending more of its GDP on defense than any other country ...

Global military expenditure in 2024 reached $2.718 trillion, a 9.4 percent increase from 2023—the steepest annual rise since ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Global military spending surged to an unprecedented $2.72 trillion in 2024, jumping 9.4% from the ...

In 2024, the U.K. was spending an estimated 2.33% of GDP on defense, according to NATO data. UK SLASHES SOME TARIFFS AGAINST US AMID TRUMP ... is encouraging other European countries to follow ...

Several European countries had seen "unprecedented" rises in their military spending, the report noted. In real terms, ...