The phrase "arms expenditures" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing financial allocations for military or defense purposes.
Example: "The government's arms expenditures have significantly increased over the past year, raising concerns about budget priorities."
Alternatives: "military spending" or "defense budget".
American hegemony & consequent arms expenditures gave impetus to worldwide inflation.
Congress has required the Pentagon to report each year since 1985 on allied contributions to Western arms expenditures.
Somalia's consequent military alliance with the Soviet Union upset the regional balance of power, driving up Ethiopia's arms expenditures and necessitating more U.S. assistance.
The two intelligence agencies that prepared the report have differed in the past over Soviet abilities, with the defense agency, for example, estimating Soviet arms expenditures rising at a faster rate than the C.I.A.
Thus, the adjustments to arms expenditures one power has to undertake in case of an increase by its adversary in order to keep the balance of power are less than in a bipolar system due to the possibility of allying with second- and third-rank powers.
When adapted to multipolar systems, one has to assume that "a country [− or a bloc in our case –] is most likely to respond to an increase in the arms expenditure of a rival only in regard to that part which appears likely to be deployed or directed against itself" [25, p. 401].
Reasons for this are probably many and complex, but may include military conflict and arms expenditure, the 'brain drain', research culture, trade embargoes and humanitarian crises [ 9, 10].
China and Saudi Arabia were also among a list of countries that increased arms spending, but overall world military expenditure fell by 1.9% to $1.75tn in 2013.
Q. Military or arms transfers and expenditures?
"That leaves the door open for alternate suppliers, so France has played that card," said Dr. Aude Fleurant, who is the arms and military expenditures program director at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
In particular, managed care appears to increase efficiency by reducing the tendency of hospital competition to result in a "medical arms race" of expenditure growth.
