British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced Tuesday that his country is putting its defense industry on a “war footing” by increasing defense spending to 2.5% of GDP by the end of the decade amid
during a visit to the Polish capital, Warsaw. It came on the heels of a new pledge to send arms worth $620 million to Ukraine, including missiles, armored vehicles and ammunition. He described the increased spending as the “biggest strengthening of our national defense for a generation.
's eastern front. “One of the central lessons of the war in Ukraine is that we need deeper stockpiles of munitions, and for industry to be able to replenish them more quickly.” Under the new spending plan, Britain’s defense budget will increase immediately and then rise steadily to reach 87 billion pounds at the end the decade. A decade ago,