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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 127786" data-attributes="member: 884"><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: navy">Global arms spending tops $1.6T</span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><strong><em><span style="color: navy">Last Updated: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 | 6:42 PM ET </span></em></strong></p><p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><strong><span style="color: navy">The Associated Press</span> </strong></p><p></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><img src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2010/05/26/tp-jamaica-guns-cp-8739387.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: red"><em>Armed soldiers on guard in Kingston, Jamaica, in May 2010.</em> <em>(Associated Press)</em></span></p><p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">Despite the global financial crisis, world military spending almost doubled in the past decade to reach <strong>$1.6 trillion Cdn</strong> in 2009, a Swedish think-tank said Wednesday.</span></p><p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">In its 2010 yearbook, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or SIPRI, said that spending between 2008 and 2009 grew 5.9 per cent.</span></p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">The United States remains the biggest spender, accounting for some 54 per cent of the increase, the report said. China, which became the second biggest military spender in 2008, retained that position last year. France was third.</span></p><p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">Data also showed that Asia and Oceania are increasing their military expenditures the fastest.</span></p><p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">The global financial turmoil had little effect on governments upgrading their armed forces, even in countries whose economies were hit the hardest, SIPRI spokesman Sam Perlo-Freeman said.</span></p><p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">"Although military spending wasn't usually a major part of the economic stimulus packages, it wasn't cut either," said Perlo-Freeman, who heads the think-tank's military expenditure project.</span></p><p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">"For major or intermediate powers — such as the [U.S.], China, Russia, India and Brazil — military spending represents a long-term strategic choice which they are willing to make even in hard economic times," he said.</span></p><p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">SIPRI said that since the U.S. last year doubled its troops in Afghanistan, the country's spending there has now superseded that in Iraq.</span></p><p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">In terms of nuclear weapon {censored}nals, SIPRI estimated that some 8,100 nuclear warheads are operational in the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France, India, Pakistan and Israel. Although that is 300 fewer than a year earlier, around 2,000 of them were still "on high alert," or ready to be launched within minutes, it said.</span></p><p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: navy">© The Canadian Press, 2010</span></p><p></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><a href="http://www.cp.org/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/icon_cponline07.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p> <span style="color: #000000"></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Read more: <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/06/01/world-military-spending-sweden.html?ref=rss#ixzz0peDdGT65" target="_blank">CBC News - World - Global arms spending tops $1.6T</a></p><p></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 127786, member: 884"] [LEFT][COLOR=#000000][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=navy]Global arms spending tops $1.6T[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][/LEFT][COLOR=#000000] [LEFT][B][I][COLOR=navy]Last Updated: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 | 6:42 PM ET [/COLOR][/I][/B][/LEFT] [LEFT][B][COLOR=navy]The Associated Press[/COLOR] [/B][/LEFT] [LEFT][IMG]http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2010/05/26/tp-jamaica-guns-cp-8739387.jpg[/IMG] [COLOR=red][I]Armed soldiers on guard in Kingston, Jamaica, in May 2010.[/I] [I](Associated Press)[/I][/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=navy]Despite the global financial crisis, world military spending almost doubled in the past decade to reach [B]$1.6 trillion Cdn[/B] in 2009, a Swedish think-tank said Wednesday.[/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=navy]In its 2010 yearbook, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, or SIPRI, said that spending between 2008 and 2009 grew 5.9 per cent.[/COLOR] [COLOR=navy]The United States remains the biggest spender, accounting for some 54 per cent of the increase, the report said. China, which became the second biggest military spender in 2008, retained that position last year. France was third.[/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=navy]Data also showed that Asia and Oceania are increasing their military expenditures the fastest.[/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=navy]The global financial turmoil had little effect on governments upgrading their armed forces, even in countries whose economies were hit the hardest, SIPRI spokesman Sam Perlo-Freeman said.[/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=navy]"Although military spending wasn't usually a major part of the economic stimulus packages, it wasn't cut either," said Perlo-Freeman, who heads the think-tank's military expenditure project.[/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=navy]"For major or intermediate powers — such as the [U.S.], China, Russia, India and Brazil — military spending represents a long-term strategic choice which they are willing to make even in hard economic times," he said.[/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=navy]SIPRI said that since the U.S. last year doubled its troops in Afghanistan, the country's spending there has now superseded that in Iraq.[/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=navy]In terms of nuclear weapon {censored}nals, SIPRI estimated that some 8,100 nuclear warheads are operational in the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France, India, Pakistan and Israel. Although that is 300 fewer than a year earlier, around 2,000 of them were still "on high alert," or ready to be launched within minutes, it said.[/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][COLOR=navy]© The Canadian Press, 2010[/COLOR][/LEFT] [LEFT][URL="http://www.cp.org/"][IMG]http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/icon_cponline07.gif[/IMG][/URL][/LEFT] [LEFT]Read more: [URL="http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/06/01/world-military-spending-sweden.html?ref=rss#ixzz0peDdGT65"]CBC News - World - Global arms spending tops $1.6T[/URL][/LEFT] [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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