Arms & Ambition: A Defense Market Report

But the real surprise, the quiet mover in this grand, expensive dance, is Germany. They’ve decided to take their defense spending very seriously, emerging as the fourth-largest spender on the planet. A rather dramatic awakening, wouldn’t you say? In 2025, they allocated a respectable 86 billion euros to modernizing their forces. But that, it seems, was merely a prelude. The latest budget, approved with characteristic Teutonic efficiency, boosts that figure by a full 25%, to 108 billion euros. The ultimate goal? A staggering 152 billion euros by 2029. It’s a veritable arms race, conducted with the precision of a Swiss watch…and funded by the wallets of taxpayers.







