ABSTRACT
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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|500 pages
Domain trends
chapter One|14 pages
The future of maritime competition
chapter |4 pages
Battle management systems
chapter |4 pages
China's civil-military integration in the 21st century
chapter |1 pages
Fractures in the arms-control environment
chapter Two|7 pages
Comparative defence statistics
chapter Three|36 pages
North America
chapter |34 pages
North America
chapter Four|98 pages
Europe
chapter Five|54 pages
Russia and Eurasia
chapter Seven|64 pages
Middle East and North Africa
chapter Eight|58 pages
Latin America and the Caribbean
chapter Nine|67 pages
Sub-Saharan Africa
chapter Ten|4 pages
Military cyber capabilities
part Two|19 pages
Reference