Military Balance
Burke Chair reports in Military Balance provide regularly updated data, charts, maps and analyses on the global military balance and regional military balances
These studies summarize the global military balance in graphic and tabular form, as well as extensive analysis of real-world warfighting capabilities. The studies are divided by region and sub-region, and cover the trends in conventional forces, nuclear forces, arms proliferation, military efforts and spending, procurement and arms import activity, force modernization, and force quality. Included are military balances on Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, the Levant, NATO and Europe, the Global Nuclear Balance, and proliferation of WMD. Each balance differs in content to reflect the varying tensions and force trends in each respective region. The individual balances are also tailored to support qualitative as well as quantitative analysis, as well as analysis of arms control issues. In some regions, notably the Middle East, the military data are supplemented by extensive data on economic, demographic, and energy trends.
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The Other Sides of Renegotiating the JCPOA Iran Nuclear Agreement
Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman and Grace Hwang — April 15, 2021
The Gulf and Iran’s Capabilities for Asymmetric Warfare
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — January 13, 2020
The Arab Gulf States and Iran: Military Spending, Modernization, and the Shifting Military Balance
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Nicholas Harrington — December 12, 2018
China and the New Strategic Nuclear Arms Race
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — November 15, 2018
Chinese Strategy, Military Forces, and Economics
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — September 19, 2018
The Korean Civil-Military Balance
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman and Nicholas Harrington — May 24, 2018
Russia's New Nuclear Weapons: Whoever Dies with the Most Toys Wins?
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — March 8, 2018
The Other Side of the North Korean, Iranian, Hezbollah, and Yemeni Missile Threat
Commentary by Anthony H. Cordesman — November 30, 2017
Web Book: The Military Balance in the Koreas and Northeast Asia
Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — January 31, 2017