About A$17.4 billion of the Australian government’s promised A$53 billion increase in headline defence spending over the next 10 years remains uncertain. Of the uplift promised by the National Defence Strategy (NDS) a month ago …
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The Taiwanese legislature’s curtailing of a defence acquisition budget on 8 May has impeded the government’s attempts at building a porcupine defence system and has damaged the island’s strategic credibility just as President Donald Trump …
The Iran War, more than four years of Russia’s war on Ukraine and tensions in the Indo-Pacific have prompted most democratic nations to reset defence strategies and budgets. The strategic rationale is just as relevant …
The current debate on Defence funding, sparked by our 29 May report The Cost of Defence: ASPI Defence budget brief 2025–2026, and a subsequent US request for Australia to spend more, has swung between a …
Indonesia’s defence budget for 2026 is 187.1 trillion rupiah (A$17 billion). This is a small increase from last year’s budget but still low compared with GDP and global standards. A significant portion of the budget …