Global defence spending jumped 9 percent to a record $2.2 trillion last year, a British military think tank said, and is set to rise in 2024 with Israel's war on Gaza, the conflict in Ukraine and rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific region.
The current military-security situation heralds what is likely to be a more dangerous decade, characterised by the brazen application by some of military power to pursue claims, read the annual report which the IISS has been compiling annually for the past 65 years.
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