Asia

In: The military balance: the annual assessment of global military capabilities and defence economics, Band 112, Heft 1, S. 205-302

Abstract

While economic problems are undermining defence spending in the US and European countries, Asia is becoming increasingly militarised. In a regional context of strategic uncertainty, many Asian countries' sustained rapid economic growth is providing substantially increased resources for their armed forces. Asian states' growing defence budgets are being used to purchase increasingly sophisticated conventional military systems that potentially provide armed forces in the region with the capacity to located and destroy targets at longer ranges and with greater accuracy. Adapted from the source document.