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.

When U.S. inflation-adjusted military spending fell by one-third in the 1990s, the U.S. share of global military spending only fell by six percentage points because other countries, particularly ...

Defense expenditure policies now should be akin to those in force during the Cold War-era, Polish President Andrzej Duda told ...

Like traders in a souk, politicians keep tossing out new spending targets: 2%, 3% or even 5%. The decisive factor, however, ...

"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 ...

Rather, the end of the Cold War signaled a period of military budget cuts, and the Seawolf found itself on the chopping block ...

Best practices for that ongoing adaptation may lie in Cold War lessons ... stagnation in defense spending and force size and can counter aggressors elsewhere while the military prioritizes ...

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

Three years after launching his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin faces a looming choice. In public, he exudes optimism. He has pulled his country back from the ...

US special operators are shifting away from counterterrorism toward peer-adversary conflict. There are five areas the US special operations community can focus on to ...