This chart compares the annual military spending in a selection of Asian countries/territories, 2020-2024 (in billion U.S. dollars, constant 2023 prices).

Reserve forces help support active-duty troops in wartime scenarios, but otherwise keep military costs down. One Asian nation has 5 million reserve troops. Are you ahead, or behind on retirement?

Since taking power in an unconstitutional coup in February 2021, Myanmar’s military has continually renewed a state of ...

Both of these nations have some of the largest and most advanced military forces in Asia These countries are looking for a peaceful and permanent solution to this border ordeal without having to ...

President Donald Trump is again loudly complaining that the US military bases in Asia are too costly for the US to bear. As part of the new round of tariff negotiations with Japan and Korea, Trump is ...

The seemingly inevitable point at which China’s defense budget will top the combined military spending of its neighbors is slipping ever later as those countries keep boosting their coffers to counter ...

Data is the fuel of agentic systems, but quality matters more than volume. China benefits from a vast collection of civil ...

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HONG KONG (Reuters) -Spending on weapons and research is spiking among some Asian countries as they respond to a darkening security outlook by broadening their outside industrial partnerships while ...

MANILA, Philippines — Thousands of allied American and Filipino forces opened annual combat drills Monday that are set to include repelling an island attack to simulate the defense of the Philippine ...

(Ishara S. KODIKARA/AFP/AFP) The toll in deadly flooding and landslides across parts of Asia climbed past 1,000 on Monday as hardest-hit Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel to help ...

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