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The annual assessment of global military capabilities and defence economics
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.
14 February 2018. The Military Balance 2018 includes a wall chart focused on ‘Strategic-forces modernisation: China, Russia and the United States’.
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.
03 February 2017. The Military Balance 2017 includes a wall chart focused on ‘US forces in Europe in 1989 and 2017’.
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+.
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.
09 February 2016.
The Military Balance 2016 comes with a new wall chart focusing on ‘Gulf Region Missile Defence’
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.
The Military Balance 2015 comes with a new wall chart focusing on ‘Russia’s Armed Forces’
05 February 2013.
This map of global hot spots focuses on women in armed conflict worldwide with a timeline, graphs and tables.
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