GLOBALink | Military spending surge not making Europe safer, expert says

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GLOBALink | Military spending surge not making Europe safer, expert says

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03 May 2023, 14:25 GMT+10

GLOBALink | Military spending surge not making Europe safer, expert says

ZAGREB, May 3 (Xinhua) -- A surge in military spending in Europe last year did not make the bloc safer, a prominent Croatian military expert said in an interview with Xinhua.

Global military spending grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2022, to an all-time high of 2,240 billion U.S. dollars, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a report published on April 24.

The sharpest rise in spending was seen in Europe, SIPRI underlined.

"To be honest, more military spending means less security," Marinko Ogorec, Croatia's former first military envoy to Russia, told Xinhua.

Ogorec, who is now head of the Department of Defense Systems and Technologies at Croatia's Institute for Research and Development of Defense Systems, said the surge in military spending across Europe last year actually "increases the possibility of escalation, a possible outflow of weapons and ammunition from warehouses."

Meanwhile, military aid to Ukraine and concerns over a heightened threat from Russia have strongly influenced many other states' spending decisions, he said.

Not only has this not improved security for these countries, it has also served the interests of the U.S. military industry, Ogorec said.

The United States has been the largest arms exporter globally for the past three decades, and the biggest arms supplier to Europe.

SIPRI's report found that European NATO states increased their arms imports from the United States by 65 percent last year.

Produced by Xinhua Global Service

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