Budget Brief: U.S. Share Of Global Defense Spending Hit New Low In 2025
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Against the backdrop of rapidly rising global defense expenditure, one trend has gone largely unnoticed: In 2025, the U.S. share of global spending fell to its lowest level for decades, likely since World War II. While a gradual decline has been underway since the height of the wars in Afghanistan...
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