cover image: Exploring military capacity and capability Contemporary Trends in Militarisation - Institute for

Exploring military capacity and capability Contemporary Trends in Militarisation - Institute for

22 Jul 2024

• Drivers of Militarisation Decline: Two main drivers This rise is driven by reactions to the ongoing conflict have been identified for the fall in militarisation since in Ukraine and escalating geopolitical tensions in Asia, the end of the Cold War: a relative decrease in the Oceania, and the Middle East1. [...] à There appear to be two drivers of the fall in militarisation The US, Russia, and China all recorded large falls in total since the end of the Cold War: a relative fall in the priority troop numbers. [...] One of the more puzzling trends in peace that comprehensive understanding of the changing dynamics of the GPI has revealed is a decline in the average level of country militarisation. [...] The US and France both have a military that to under 28 million in 2019 comprises less than one per cent of the total labour force, while in line with the increases in in the UK and China it is less than half a per cent. [...] substantially changes the calculations of the ranking of the military capabilities of the major military counties.
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