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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 14. juni 2006 / Time Line June 14, 2006

13. juni 2006, 15. juni 2006

06/14/2006
World military spending 2005
World military spending in 2005 for the first time topped US$1 trillion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. It has now reached an an average of US$173 per capita,
The SIPRI Yearbook 2006 Armaments, Disarmament and International Security - was published on 12 June. It reports that world military expenditure in 2005 reached US$1118 billion in current dollars. This is 2.5% of world GDP and represents an increase of 3.4 % since 2004 and of 34 % in the 10 years since 1996. The USA is responsible for about 80% of the 2005 increase, and its military expenditure now accounts for 48% of the world total.
The SIPRI "Top 100" are those companies reckoned to be the largest arms producers. The value of their combined sales in 2004 rose to US $268 billion, a 15 per cent rise. 63.3% of this is accounted for by 40 US companies, and 39.4% by 36 West European companies.
The Yearbook draws attention to "the privatization of defence services and support" which is "drawing new kinds of suppliers into military contracting ... While some of these activities can be seen as an expansion of the arms industry, other support activities are not military services but general security services and construction, creating a periphery of private companies around the core arms industry".
Summaries of the Yearbook's chapters can be downloaded from:
http://yearbook2006.sipri.org/

06/14/2006
NEWS RELEASES from the United States Department of Defense
Navy Announces Christening of Submarine Hawaii
The Navy's newest attack submarine Hawaii will be christened Saturday during an 11 a.m. EDT ceremony at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Conn.
The third submarine of the Virginia class, SSN 776, will bear the name Hawaii to recognize the tremendous support the Navy has enjoyed from the people of the 50th state and in honor of the rich heritage of submarines in the Pacific theater.

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