10 Nations that Emerge As the Biggest Military Spenders

4. France:

France is one of the significant spenders on defense in the world. The country’s defense spending had been increased significantly since 2002, with the objective of increasing to 2.5 percent to GDP. Most of the increase in the military budget is mainly to reinforce the French military's capacity to fight terrorism.
France's military is also undergoing a major restructuring towards a smaller, modernized, and all-professional force that will be both deployable and interoperable with the superpower nations and allied militaries.

3. Russia:

Russia with 69,117,271 number of military manpower is one of the strong military forces in the world and this has risen the military budget considerably. The annual spending of Russian over its defense forces is estimated to $90.6 billion. This northern Eurasian nation has the largest accumulation of nuclear weapons in the world. It has the second largest fleet of ballistic missile submarines and is the only country apart from the United States with a modern strategic bomber force.

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