On average, Europeans in NATO spend 2.1% of GDP on defence, compared with America's 3.2%.
America, partly because of its global interests, devotes 3.8% of GDP to defence, compared with an average of 1.9% for the European allies (see chart).
Surprisingly, these extremely long-lived small rodents exhibit no evidence of enhanced antioxidant defence compared with mice [17].
Sean Farrell tweeted the key points: Sean Farrell (@farrell_s) Rolls-Royce CEO says company has "defied gravity" in face of defence cuts compared with other defence cos.
In the first quarter of 2013, the number of trials declared ineffective because the prosecution failed to disclose materials to the defence doubled, compared with the same quarter of 2012.
However, it is still the poor relation to India's other armed services, with only 19% of the defence budget compared with 25% for the air force and 50% for the army.The air force also receives the lion's share of the capital-equipment budget double the amount given to the navy.
ISRAEL's generals will feel satisfied with the results of Operation Pillar of Defence, especially compared with the botched Lebanon war of 2006 or the highly destructive Operation Cast Lead, when Israeli forces invaded the Gaza Strip for three weeks at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009.
However, the government has been consistently unwilling to pay the "cash price" for such an undertaking, with the percentage increases in the UK defence budget paltry compared with that of the US.
Spain spent just 1.2% of its GDP on defence in 2002, compared with an average of 1.9% for NATO's European members and of 2.6% for NATO as a whole.
Even if the government sticks to an earlier promise to increase equipment spending by 1% from next year and hold the rest of the budget flat in real terms, Britain would still spend only about 1.75% of its GDP on defence by 2019, compared with 2.6% in 2010.This matters.
