US Military Spending Boost Has Potential to Upset Existing Global Balance
As the US appears poised to significantly increase its military budget, many analysts are starting to wonder if this move might spark another arms race.
Earlier, a White House spokesperson announced that the Trump administration is going to boost military spending by $54 billion and to drastically cut foreign aid programs.
According to Alexey Fenenko, Associate Professor at Moscow State University’s World Politics faculty, the US is aiming to upgrade its military potential.
"Over the last 25 years there was more talk than action in this respect. They (the US) spoke a lot about a revolution in the military sphere, about new ‘smart’ weaponry. But almost all of the cruise missiles currently employed by the US military were adopted in the early 1980s. Now they want to upgrade both their conventional weapons and the nuclear triad," Fenenko told RIA Novosti.
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