Ефекти от увеличението на разходите за отбрана
Effects of increased defense spending

Summary/Abstract: In the last decade of the 21st century, especially since 2020, we have been living in an extremely dynamic and uncertain security environment. The risks and threats to world peace are increasingly unpredictable. The danger of a Third World War is increasingly mentioned, which in any case would be radically different from the previous two – both in scale and in the military arsenal used, radically different from the one we know, and in the degree of damage that would be caused. Against this background, the member states of the Euro-Atlantic alliance, with few exceptions, are showing increasingly persistent warmongering sentiments, veiled by the danger of pseudo-attacks. We are witnesses that an alliance created for purely economic reasons for the purpose of economic assistance and mutual assistance is today increasingly degenerating into a political-defense alliance, generating particularly large amounts of financial resources for building alliance defense capabilities. And since defense spending is a measure of these capabilities, the author's scientific research was prompted by the decisions of the summit of the member states of this Euro-Atlantic alliance in The Hague in June 2025 to drastically increase defense spending by 2035 to 5% of the GDP of these countries. Hence, the author's reflections are in response to the questions of how achievable this goal is, will it contribute to the modernization of the military-defense component of national security systems, will the necessary European defense capabilities of the countries of this alliance be built, what will be the cost for the socio-economic and social development of these countries.

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