2025 Defence & Security Trends: Navigating a Changing Landscape
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About this report
The year 2025 is proving to be a pivotal period for global defence and security, characterized by rapid changes in threat perceptions, technology, and military spending patterns . Navigating this shifting landscape is a challenge for policymakers and investors alike, as trends established in the past few years accelerate and new ones emerge.
One overarching trend is the broad-based increase in defence expenditures across the world, as highlighted by SIPRI’s latest report: 2024 saw the steepest annual rise in military spending since the end of the Cold War, and 2025 is on track to continue that trajectory.
Key questions this report answers
- Why does SIPRI report that 2024 saw the steepest annual rise in military spending since the end of the Cold War?
- How is the broad-based increase in defence expenditures expected to continue its trajectory through 2025?
- Which shifts in threat perception, technology and spending patterns most define the 2025 defence landscape?
- How should policymakers and investors position for the acceleration of established trends and emergence of new ones?
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Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
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DFM reports are built from primary and official sources — TED procurement notices, CORDIS and the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, EIB operations, the NATO Innovation Fund portfolio, SIPRI data, official budget documents and company disclosures — read together with the underlying legal texts. Sources are cited in the document; it reflects them as of its publication date (06 May 2025). You receive a 5-page PDF, watermarked to you on every page, delivered on the confirmation page and by e-mail immediately after checkout (personal link valid 72 hours, up to 5 downloads). Guest checkout, single-user licence — Terms of Sale.
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