Military expenditures

Ammo deal is response to US missile shield

December 1, 2011

Russia Today, the state-run television news network, claims that Russia’s plan to sell ammunition-making technology to Havana is a response to the U.S. missile-defence plans in Europe. Moreover, Pravda chimes in on the Cuban armed forces’ modernization starting point: From 1961 to 1991, the volume of arms shipments from the USSR to Cuba made up [...]

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Ukrainian arms transfers to Cuba

October 19, 2011

Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovich, will visit Cuba during his six-day tour of Latin American, which begins tomorrow, as announced by his press office. During his visit to Cuba, Yanukukovych will meet the country’s leadership. Several bilateral documents will be signed in the framework of the talks. Several years ago, Kiev sold in bulk light to [...]

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What determines the level of military expenditures?

October 5, 2011

Alejandro Quiroz Flores, a Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU’s Wilf Family Department of Politics, has a research article recently published in the periodical Conflict Management and Peace Science addressing the factors propelling a country’s military expenditures: Both history and theory indicate that military expenditures are strategic in nature—a country’s military expenditures depend on the military allocations of other [...]

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Cuba explored acquisition of North Korean subs

August 15, 2011

Lee Kwang Soo, a captured crew member from a North Korean SANG-O class submarine, which ran aground on a South Korean beach during an espionage mission in September 1996, was interviewed by The Daily NK,1 breaking his 14 year silence about his experiences in the North Korean Navy. In his interview, he commented on this [...]

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Defense expenditures continue to increase

July 24, 2011

In 2010, the Cuban government increased its defense and internal order expenditures by 2%. According to the recently released 2010 Statistical Annual of Cuba (Anuario Estadístico de Cuba 2010) by the Cuban Office of National Statistics (Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas (ONE), expenditures in the area of defense and internal order were $2.14B CUP compared to 2009′s [...]

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Military equipment modernization is cost-prohibitive

May 7, 2011

“Cuba is very interested in modernizing its military equipment that date to the Soviet era, but lack financial resources,” stated Polina Temérina, an analyst at the Moscow-based Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), to RIA Novosti. She further added: “Cuba has, on more than one occasion, asked Russia to modernize its arsenals but the problem continues [...]

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