{"id":139168,"date":"2026-04-28T08:02:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/under-us-pressure-european-military-spending-soars-14\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T08:02:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:02:47","slug":"under-us-pressure-european-military-spending-soars-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/under-us-pressure-european-military-spending-soars-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Under US pressure, European military spending soars 14%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Global military expenditure reached $2.89 trillion in 2025, up 2.9% from 2024, according to a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Notably, Europe\u2019s defense spending rose sharply, surging 14% to $864 billion.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the 11th consecutive year of global military expenditure growth, pushing military spending as a share of global GDP to 2.5%, the highest level since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Among European NATO members, 29 countries reported a combined military budget of $559 billion in 2025, with 22 of them allocating at least 2% of their GDP to defense.<\/p>\n<p>The report also noted that the United States remained the world\u2019s largest military spender, with $954 billion in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>US defense spending fell 7.5% from 2024 due to the absence of new military aid approvals for Ukraine. Nonetheless, the research institute said the dip is temporary as the US Congress has already approved over $1 trillion for 2026, a substantial increase from 2025.<\/p>\n<p>If US President Donald Trump\u2019s latest budget proposal is passed, US defense spending could rise further to $1.5 trillion in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/under-us-pressure-european-military-spending-soars-14\/\">Under US pressure, European military spending soars 14%<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global military expenditure reached $2.89 trillion in 2025, up 2.9% from 2024, according to a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released on Monday. Notably, Europe\u2019s defense spending rose sharply, surging 14% to $864 billion. This marks the 11th consecutive year of global military expenditure growth, pushing military spending as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}