Military Balance 2009 - Press Coverage
- 02 Aug 2009 - - El Mercurio - ''Chávez ha mejorado su cooperación con EE.UU. desde que llegó Obama''
Interview with Dr John Chipman, Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS
- 29 July 2009 - - United Press International - Latin America arms race looms amid rising tensions
Military analysts said recent purchases would likely revise last year's estimates of defense spending in Latin America and the Caribbean, which grew by 91 percent from 2003-08. London's International Institute for Strategic Studies said defense spending in the region during the 2003-08 period rose from $4.7 billion to $47.2 billion.
- 16 Jul 2009 - - Financial Times - Look to Anglo-French defence savings
By Alexander Nicoll, Director of Editorial
- 14 June 2009 - - Agence France Presse - Key Iran institutions
Armed Forces
The force is estimated to number 523,000 men (IISS, 2009)
- 09 June 2009 - -Haaretz - Lieberman only understands the language of conflict
If once it was enough to look at the annual reports of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London about 'hard' or military power ... now we live in a much more complex world. There is a spectrum of issues known in professional jargon as 'soft power,' from a country's economic power to its diplomatic power to extremely 'soft' issues such as culture, history and religion."
- 04 June 2009 - - BBC News - The purchasing power of peace
China is not the only Asian country to boost its defence budgets.
Last year, Asia overtook Europe as the second-biggest military spender ($173bn), after the US ($374bn) and ahead of European Nato members ($144bn), according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
Its forces are encamped only a short distance from the South Korean capital, Seoul. An Iraq-style invasion is not possible.
