“During the Cold War, Europeans spent far more ... and a CIA report of 1982 estimated that total Soviet military expenditure had exceeded U.S. spending by a small margin by 1980.

The Cold War and the high levels of American defense spending provided at most an opportunity for leaders of the Soviet military-industrial complex to justify their claims to preferential treatment.

The United States has the smallest defense budget in nearly 100 years. If the U.S. is in a cold war, it seems to be cheaper and less urgent than the last.

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has significantly depleted the Soviet military-industrial complex legacy, therefore limiting ...

"the Soviet Union's military spending amounted to 13 percent of GDP." In 2025, Russia plans to spend 6.3% of its GDP on national defense, its highest level since the Cold War. Meanwhile ...

There is no security threat comparable to the Soviet Union today ... in matters of war guarantees that it is useless in reining in excessive military spending. Insofar as more than sixteen years ...

Narrator: After World War Two, a 45-year struggle for global supremacy emerged: the Cold ... Soviet aggression. West Germany joined NATO in May 1955 after the UK, France and America ended their ...

The former wartime allies found themselves locked in a struggle that came to be known as the Cold War. Eisenhower saw ... that would squelch rumors of Soviet military superiority.

In 1945, Canada and her Allies celebrated victory over Germany in the Second World War ... In 1949 the Soviet Union tested its first atomic bomb and in reply Canada's military spending soared.