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American and Chinese Defense Budgets: Big Spending and Slight Cutting Can Make a Big Difference

American and Chinese Defense Budgets: Big Spending and Slight Cutting Can Make a Big Difference

I saw these two reports within a few minutes of each other and the contrast wasn’t exactly hard to see. The first piece detailed China’s rapidly increasing military spending: China’s defense budget will double by 2015, making it more than the rest of the Asia Pacific region’s combined, according to a report from IHS Jane’s, […]

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Countering the Chinese Naval Tsunami

An interesting aspect of India’s defense strategy today is its focus on increasing its naval power, currently the fifth largest in the world. Last month, the Woodrow Wilson Center hosted a panel to discuss this “dramatic maritime transformation.” Within the next decade, the country plans to introduce 40 new warships and 400 new aircraft to […]

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