Full Description
Published each year since 1959, The Military Balance is an indispensable reference to the capabilities of armed forces across the globe. It will be of interest to anyone interested in security and military issues and is regularly consulted by academia, media, armed forces, the private sector and government.
Key Elements:
1. Data on the military organisations, equipment inventories and defence budgets of 171 countries
2. Analysis of major developments affecting defence policy and procurement, and defence economics, arranged region-by-region.
3. Key trends in the land, sea and air domains, and in cyberspace
4. Selected defence procurement programmes, arranged region-by-region
5. Full-colour graphics including maps and illustrations
6. Extensive explanatory notes and references
7. The hardcopy edition is accompanied by a full-colour wall chart
Features in the 2021 edition include:
- Analytical texts on future maritime competition, battle management systems, China's civil-military integration and fractures in the arms-control environment
- Military cyber capabilities
- Analysis of developments in defence policy, military capability and defence economics and industry for China, Egypt, Finland, Indonesia, Russia, Senegal and the United States.
- A wallchart illustrating global submarine holdings and key trends in subsurface warfare
Contents
Editor's introduction
Part One Capabilities, Trends and Economics
Domain trends
Chapter 1: Defence and military analysis
Thematic text one: The future of maritime competition
Thematic text two: Civil-military integration in China
Thematic text three: Battle Management Systems
Arms control in 2021.
Chapter 2 Comparative defence statistics
Defence budgets and expenditure
Aerospace domain graphic
Land domain graphic
Naval domain graphic
Key defence statistics
Chapter 3 North America
Regional trends infographics
United States: defence policy and economics
Canada: defence policy
Armed forces data section
Arms procurements and deliveries
Chapter 4 Europe
Regional trends infographics
Regional defence policy and defence economics
Finland: defence policy and defence economics
Armed forces data section
Arms procurements and deliveries
Chapter 5 Russia and Eurasia
Regional trends infographics
Russia: defence policy and defence economics
Ukraine: military modernisation
Armed forces data section
Arms procurements and deliveries
Asia
Regional trends infographics
Regional defence policy and economics
China: defence policy and defence economics
Indonesia: defence policy and economics
Armed forces data section
Arms procurements and deliveries
Chapter 7 Middle East and North Africa
Regional trends infographics
Regional defence policy and defence economics
Egypt: defence policy and defence economics
Armed forces data section
Arms procurements and deliveries
Latin America and the Caribbean
Regional trends infographics
Regional defence policy and defence economics
Argentina: defence policy and defence economics
Armed forces data section
Arms procurements and deliveries
Sub-Saharan Africa
Regional trends infographics
Regional defence policy and defence economics
Senegal: defence policy and economics
Armed forces data section
Arms procurements and deliveries
Part Two Reference
Explanatory notes
Principal land definitions; Principal naval definitions; Principal aviation definitions
List of abbreviations for data sections
International comparisons of defence expenditure and military personnel
Military cyber capability
Index of country/territory abbreviations
Index of countries and territories
