Military and defence policy

Defence spending cuts: The informed majority

When given information about the defence budget, most people want to see it cut(167)

Arms sales to Taiwan: Fighter-fleet response

Sudden attention paid to the ailing state of the air force in the "renegade province"(242)

Daily chart: Bangs and bucks

How military spending has changed in the past decade(67)

China’s military rise: The dragon’s new teeth

A rare look inside the world’s biggest military expansion(506)

Military spending in South-East Asia: Shopping spree

Countries are buying lots of weapons, but does it count as an arms race?(100)

Sanctions and Iran: Beleaguered but still unbowed

Despite all the sabre-rattling, neither Iran nor America wants confrontation just yet(30)

America's military strategy: Dealing with reality

Barack Obama's military strategy is both sensible and a belated recognition of realities that have been all too apparent for some time(80)

Defence spending: Always more, or else

Fear-mongering over America's defence budget(36)

Lexington: Terrible swift sword

It was never supposed to fall on the Defence Department itself(90)

The future of the British army: On the defensive

Why the resignation of Liam Fox, a flawed but reforming defence secretary, is bad news for Britain’s armed forces—and the army in particular(33)

Quick study: The global arms trade: Highly lethal and highly under-regulated

Andrew Feinstein on the fuzzy boundaries between the formal arms trade and "the shadow world"(9)

Britain's Ministry of Defence: Fox's legacy

For all his personal recklessness, Liam Fox was an able defence secretary who loved his job. His successor, Philip Hammond, will find much unfinished business and surprisingly big boots to fill(6)

Liam Fox in trouble: Gone away!

Murky relations with a friend may bring down the defence secretary(11)

Stimulus: Raising military spending increases output

Other forms of government spending are presumably similar(53)

China's military power: Modernisation in sheep's clothing

The Pentagon sounds a note of caution about the peaceful rise(666)

Defence cuts: The return of isolationism

Is the debt deal a harbinger of a coming reorientation?(26)

The defence industry: The last manned fighter

It is the most expensive military project ever. It is plagued by delays and menaced by budget cuts. Will the F-35 survive?(165)

Libya, Europe and the future of NATO: Always waiting for the US cavalry

America loses patience with Europe's military weakness(3349)