Home pagePress CenterIn the Media A new report by the CSIS Defense Industrial Initiatives Group, Trends in European Defense Spending, 2001-2006, was the basis for an article in Defense News, "CSIS: Relative European Defense Investment Up."
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A new report by the CSIS Defense Industrial Initiatives Group, Trends in European Defense Spending, 2001-2006, was the basis for an article in Defense News, "CSIS: Relative European Defense Investment Up."
Past defense spending and military personnel trends indicate future European forces may be smaller and better equipped than today's forces, according to a report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The CSIS report, released April 28, focused on defense budgets and personnel trends for European countries from 2001 to 2006. Overall, European countries' active troop levels have dropped 12 percent and total defense spending has increased 2.6 percent. But defense investment - spending for procurement and research and development - has increased 26 percent per soldier.
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