Military Balance 2010 - Press Coverage
- 16 Mar 2010 - - Foreign Policy - Get Yer Anti-Ballistic Missile Shield Here
According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies report Military Balance 2010, Saudi Arabia's defense budget grew from $24.9 billion in 2001 to $41.2 billion in 2009, a 65 percent increase. The budget of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) grew a whopping 700 percent, from $1.9 billion to $15.47 billion, in the same time period. Kuwait and Bahrain also dramatically expanded the dollars devoted to security over the last decade; their defense budgets increased 35 percent and 80 percent, respectively.
- 22 Feb 2010 - - Business Line - Reality of cyber warfare
A very recent assessment by a highly reputed London-based think-tank that cyber warfare between nations is a reality and cannot be brushed aside as fanciful should make us sit up and take notice. The warning is contained in an annual report, The Military Balance, issued by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). This in-depth document analyses each year the competitive arms race that goes on between major nations and predicts its possible fall-out from the point of view of military capabil
- 18 Feb 2010 - - Guardian - This isn't Falklands II
The capabilities to make good such declarations, however interpreted, are not wholly lacking. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Argentina's army and navy currently comprise 72,000 personnel. Its navy boasts three submarines, five destroyers and nine frigates (mostly secondhand), and a few patrol boats. The warships are armed with the feared Exocet missiles that inflicted so much damage in 1982. Argentina also has about 140 combat-capable aircraft, including Mirage fighters.
- 17 Feb 2010 - - The News - Coming alive to the cyber war threat
In this context a warning note was recently sounded by the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) while unveiling its prestigious annual publication of Military Balance 2010; indicating in no uncertain terms that cyber attacks may become the weapons of choice in the future conflicts.
- 08 Feb 2010 - - MercoPress - Russia displaces the US as main supplier of arms to Latinamerica
The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a British research institute focusing on international security, revealed that Russia in 2009 became the main exporter of weapons to Latin America thanks to the purchases made by Venezuela, but also to Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Colombia.
- 08 Feb 2010 - - Chosun Ilbo - Think Tank Warns of Cyber-Warfare Threat
The threat of cyber warfare is on a par with that of nuclear warfare in the 1950s, according to a study published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Britain on Feb. 3. "The IISS agrees with the growing consensus that future state-on-state conflict may be characterized by the use of so-called asymmetric techniques," the think tank wrote in a paper titled "Military Balance 2010."
