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DEFENSE SPENDING

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 10, 2022
Will Japan raise defense spending to 2% of GDP?
Some in Japan believe it is time to increase the defense budget to 2% of gross domestic product, similar to NATO.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 17, 2016
Ex-commander says U.K.’s ‘withered’ forces could not defend country
Britain’s armed forces would be unable to defend the country against a serious military attack because they have been “withered” by cuts, a former senior commander warned before his retirement, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jun 8, 2015
Obama presses Cameron at G-7 to ensure defense spending doesn’t fall under NATO target
U.S. President Barack Obama told Prime Minister David Cameron he hoped Britain would keep military spending at 2 percent of national output, despite London’s need to cut a sizeable budget deficit, a British source said on Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 6, 2014
Trimming U.S. military spending
The headline-grabbing cuts in America’s 2015 fiscal budget, unveiled by President Barack Obama this week, involve the downsizing of the U.S. military. The plans are controversial in light of recent events on the Crimean Peninsula and the so-called rebalance of U.S. forces to the Asia-Pacific region.
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