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policy is important because it becomes the first respondent and commentator on the policy expected strategic goal compared to the realities of identified threats when the intelligence reporting is compared to the policy it becomes possible for the national leadership to consider allocating resources over and above the officers and their subordinates military pay and the expense of maintaining military facilities and military support services for them budget further information military budget list of countries by military expenditures list of countries by past military expenditure and list of countries by military expenditure per capita further information list of countries with highest military expenditures military spending top 25 countries by gdp 2024 34 country gdp spent on military ukraine 34 5 israel 8 8 algeria 8 0 saudi arabia 7 3 russia 7 1 myanmar 6 8 oman 5 6 armenia 5 5 azerbaijan 5 0 kuwait 4 8 jordan 4 8 burkina faso 4 7 mali 4 2 poland 4 2 burundi 3 8 brunei 3 6 morocco 3 5 united states 3 4 estonia 3 4 colombia 3 4 latvia 3 3 greece 3 1 lithuania 3 1 chad 3 0 kyrgyzstan 3 0 military spending top 25 countries by ppp 2024 35 36 country billions spent on military united states 997 china 567 russia 401 india 308 ukraine 183 south korea 96 germany 99 japan 91 france 91 united kingdom 86 brazil 64 poland 62 italy 60 turkey 59 indonesia 47 colombia 43 mexico 40 spain 39 australia 31 canada 31 netherlands 21 philippines 21 romania 21 greece 17 malaysia 14 defense economics is the financial and monetary efforts made to resource and sustain militaries and to finance military operations including war the process of allocating resources is conducted by determining a military budget which is administered by a military finance organization within the military military procurement is then authorized to purchase or contract provision of goods and services to the military whether in peacetime at a permanent base or in a combat zone from local population map of military expenditures as a percentage of gdp by country 2017 37 needs update history of military budgets by country capability development capability development which is often referred to as the military strength is arguably one of the most complex activities known to humanity because it requires determining strategic operational and tactical capability requirements to counter the identified threats strategic operational and tactical doctrines by which the acquired capabilities will be used identifying concepts methods and systems involved in executing the doctrines creating design specifications for the manufacturers who would produce these in adequate quantity and quality for their use in combat purchase the concepts methods and systems create a forces structure that would use the concepts methods and systems most effectively and efficiently integrate these concepts methods and systems into the force structure by providing military education training and practice that preferably resembles combat environment of intended use create military logistics systems to allow continued and uninterrupted performance of military organizations under combat conditions including provision of health services to the personnel and maintenance for the equipment the services to assist recovery of wounded personnel and repair of damaged equipment and finally post conflict demobilization and disposal of war stocks surplus to peacetime requirements development of military doctrine is perhaps the most important of all capability development activities because it determines how military forces are used in conflicts the concepts and methods used by the command to employ appropriately military skilled armed and equipped personnel in achievement of the tangible goals and objectives of the war campaign battle engagement and action 38 the line between strategy and tactics is not easily blurred although deciding which is being discussed had sometimes been a matter of personal judgement by some commentators and military historians the use of forces at the level of organization between strategic and tactical is called operational mobility complacency and inaccurate capability perceptions can reduce combat effectiveness 39 science main article military technology a frontline ukrainian soldier with an anti drone rifle which uses directed energy to disable its target the mainstream use of drone technology in the russian invasion of ukraine led to a need to research develop and deploy effective counter measures 40 because most of the concepts and methods used by the military and many of its systems are not found in commercial branches much of the material is researched designed developed and offered for inclusion in arsenals by military science organizations within the overall structure of the military therefore military scientists can be found interacting with all arms and services of the armed forces and at all levels of the military hierarchy of command although concerned with research into military psychology particularly combat stress and how it affects troop morale often the bulk of military science activities is directed at military intelligence technology military communications and improving military capability through research the design development and prototyping of weapons military support equipment and military technology in general is also an area in which much effort is invested it includes everything from global communication networks and aircraft carriers to paint and food logistics main article military logistics this section does not cite any sources please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed march 2017 learn how and when to remove this message afghan and british military cargo trucks preparing a convoy to resupply a forward operating base in afghanistan 2011 a japan air self defense force kawasaki c 2 military transport aircraft conducting an airdrop demonstration over miho air base 2018 possessing military capability is not sufficient if this capability cannot be deployed for and employed in combat operations to achieve this military logistics are used for the logistics management and logistics planning of the forces military supply chain management the consumables and capital equipment of the troops although mostly concerned with the military transport as a means of delivery using different modes of transport from military trucks to container ships operating from permanent military base it also involves creating field supply dumps at the rear of the combat zone and even forward supply points in a specific unit s tactical area of responsibility these supply points are also used to provide military engineering services such as the recovery of defective and derelict vehicles and weapons maintenance of weapons in the field the repair and field modification of weapons and equipment and in peacetime the life extension programmes undertaken to allow continued use of equipment one of the most important role of logistics is the supply of munitions as a primary type of consumable their storage and disposal in combat the primary reason for the existence of the military is to engage in combat should it be required to do so by the national defence policy and to win this represents an organisational goal of any military and the primary focus for military thought through military history how victory is achieved and what shape it assumes is studied by most if not all military groups on three levels strategic victory main article strategic victory the maratha navy which is considered to be the foundation of the modern indian navy often employed land and sea coordination tactics when attacking which won them many battles against the mughals and portuguese military strategy is the management of forces in wars and military campaigns by a commander in chief employing large military forces either national and allied as a whole or the component elements of armies navies and air forces such as army groups naval fleets and large numbers of aircraft military strategy is a long term projection of belligerents policy with a broad view of outcome implications including outside the concerns of military command military strategy is more concerned with the supply of war and planning than management of field forces and combat between them the scope of strategic military planning can span weeks but is more often months or even years 38 operational victory dutch civilians celebrating the arrival of the i canadian corps in utrecht as the canadian army liberates the netherlands from nazi occupation operational mobility is within warfare and military doctrine the level of command which coordinates the minute details of tactics with the overarching goals of strategy a common synonym is operational art the operational level is at a scale bigger than one where line of sight and the time of day are important and smaller than the strategic level where production and politics are considerations formations are of the operational level if they are able to conduct operations on their own and are of sufficient size to be directly handled or have a significant impact at the strategic level this concept was pioneered by the german army prior to and during the second world war at this level planning and duration of activities takes from one week to a month and are executed by field armies and army corps and their naval and air equivalents 38 tactical victory main article tactical victory this section needs more citations please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed march 2017 learn how and when to remove this message military tactics concerns itself with the methods for engaging and defeating the enemy in direct combat military tactics are usually used by units over hours or days and are focused on the specific tasks and objectives of squadrons companies battalions regiments brigades and divisions and their naval and air force equivalents 38 one of the oldest military publications is the art of war by the chinese philosopher sun tzu 41 written in the 6th century bce the 13 chapter book is intended as military instruction and not as military theory but has had a huge influence on asian military doctrine and from the late 19th century on european and united states military planning it has even been used to formulate business tactics and can even be applied in social and political areas battle formation and tactics of macedon 42 the classical greeks and the romans wrote prolifically on military campaigning among the best known roman works are julius caesar s commentaries on the gallic wars and the roman civil war written about 50 bc two major works on tactics come from the late roman period taktike theoria by aelianus tacticus and de re militari on military matters by vegetius taktike theoria examined greek military tactics and was most influential in the byzantine world and during the golden age of islam de re militari formed the basis of european military tactics until the late 17th century perhaps its most enduring maxim is igitur qui desiderat pacem praeparet bellum let he who desires peace prepare for war due to the changing nature of combat with the introduction of artillery in the european middle ages and infantry firearms in the renaissance attempts were made to define and identify those strategies grand tactics and tactics that would produce a victory more often than that achieved by the romans in praying to the gods before the battle later this became known as military science and later still would adopt the scientific method approach to the conduct of military operations under the influence of the industrial revolution thinking in his seminal book on war the prussian major general and leading expert on modern military strategy carl von clausewitz defined military strategy as the employment of battles to gain the end of war 43 according to clausewitz strategy forms the plan of the war and to this end it links together the series of acts which are to lead to the final decision that is to say it makes the plans for the separate campaigns and regulates the combats to be fought in each 44 hence clausewitz placed political aims above military goals ensuring civilian control of the military military strategy was one of a triumvirate of arts or sciences that governed the conduct of warfare the others being military tactics the execution of plans and manoeuvring of forces in battle and maintenance of an army armed forces of ukraine soldiers conducting combined arms tactics training with a bmp 2 ifv the meaning of military tactics has changed over time from the deployment and manoeuvring of entire land armies on the fields of ancient battles and galley fleets to modern use of small unit ambushes encirclements bombardment attacks frontal assaults air assaults hit and run tactics used mainly by guerrilla forces and in some cases suicide attacks on land and at sea evolution of aerial warfare introduced its own air combat tactics often military deception in the form of military camouflage or misdirection using decoys is used to confuse the enemy as a tactic a major development in infantry tactics came with the increased use of trench warfare in the 19th and 20th centuries this was mainly employed in world war i in the gallipoli campaign and the western front trench warfare often turned to a stalemate only broken by a large loss of life because in order to attack an enemy entrenchment soldiers had to run through an exposed no man s land under heavy fire from their opposing entrenched enemy technology main article military technology this section needs more citations please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed october 2014 learn how and when to remove this message a bronze arrowhead from the 4th century bce found in olynthus chalkidiki greece as with any occupation since ancient times the military has been distinguished from other members of the society by their tools the weapons and military equipment used in combat when stone age humans first took flint to tip the spear it was the first example of applying technology to improve the weapon since then the advances made by human societies and that of weapons has been closely linked stone weapons gave way to bronze age and iron age weapons such as swords and shields with each technological change was realized some tangible increase in military capability such as through greater effectiveness of a sharper edge in defeating armour or improved density of materials used in manufacture of weapons a mounted knight and a foot knight in full plate armour armour and cavalry dominated the battlefield until the invention of firearms on land the first significant technological advance in warfare was the development of ranged weapons notably the sling and late...