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    The Military Balance 2018

    14 February 2018.  The Military Balance 2018 includes new arms orders and deliveries graphics, a wall chart focused on strategic-forces modernisation in China, Russia and the United States, and thematic texts on Chinese and Russian air-launched weapons, artificial intelligence and defence, and Russian strategic-force modernisation.

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    The Military Balance 2018 Wall Chart: Strategic-forces modernisation

    14 February 2018.  The Military Balance 2018 includes a wall chart focused on ‘Strategic-forces modernisation: China, Russia and the United States’.

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    The Military Balance 2017

    14 February 2017.  The Military Balance 2017 includes new equipment analysis graphics, a wall chart comparing US forces in Europe in 1989 and 2017 and essays on the changing defence-industrial landscape, special-operations forces, and twenty-first-century challenges to twentieth-century deterrence.

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    The Military Balance 2017 Wall Chart: US Forces in Europe, 1989 and 2017

    03 February 2017.  The Military Balance 2017 includes a wall chart focused on ‘US forces in Europe in 1989 and 2017’.

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    The Military Balance+ Individual Subscription

    14 February 2017.  Since 1959, The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) has published The Military Balance, the annual assessment of global military capabilities and defence economics. In a major innovation, the analysis and data contained in this trusted book is now available in an online database – the Military Balance+.

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    The Military Balance 2016

    09 February 2016.  The Military Balance 2016 includes new equipment analysis graphics, a wall chart detailing Gulf region missile defence and essays on armoured vehicles, Chinese ballistic missiles and cyber deterrence.

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    The Military Balance 2016 Wall Chart: Gulf Region Missile Defence

    09 February 2016. 

    The Military Balance 2016 comes with a new wall chart focusing on ‘Gulf Region Missile Defence’

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    The Military Balance 2015

    11 February 2015. 

    New features in The Military Balance 2015 include equipment analysis graphics, a wall chart detailing Russia’s armed forces and essays on hybrid warfare, US space systems and directed energy weapons.

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    The Military Balance 2015 Wall Chart: Russia’s Armed Forces

    11 February 2015. 

    The Military Balance 2015 comes with a new wall chart focusing on ‘Russia’s Armed Forces’

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    The Military Balance 2014: Chart of Conflict

    05 February 2013. 

    This map of global hot spots focuses on women in armed conflict worldwide with a timeline, graphs and tables.