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2025 Defence & Security Trends: Navigating a Changing Landscape
What is the central argument of “2025 Defence & Security Trends”, and why does it matter for European defence and dual-use markets?
2025 Defence & Security Trends: Navigating a Changing Landscape: The year 2025 is proving. Defence-finance analysis; 5-page sourced DFM PDF report.
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Original DFM publication · DFM Analysis report · 2025-05-06
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.
This analysis answers: What is the central argument of “2025 Defence & Security Trends”, and why does it matter for European defence and dual-use markets? What does this mean for European defence funding, procurement and investment decisions? How mature and defensible is the position described in “2025 Defence & Security Trends”? Which European actors, programmes and funding instruments are most exposed?
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