Land Warfare Review 2024: Conflict in Europe and the Middle East dominate attention and power spending
The war in Ukraine has dominated focus in 2024. (Photo: Ukraine MoD)
Political turbulence in the US and across the Atlantic could have huge implications for Ukraine in the coming months. In 2024, however, the land warfare domain saw spending increase in eastern and central Europe, the continent continue its preference for the CV90 and a global rise in the demand for missiles.
It is the dog days of the Biden administration and its pro-Ukraine policies in the US as the sun begins to rise on a new Trump and Republican-ruled Washington which will likely be less supportive of Ukraine and perhaps slow the flow of contracts, a stark change from 2024.
Across the Atlantic, political tremors in Europe shook the continent where war continues and conflict in the Middle East has reached a peak not seen for years. It is a war which in 2024 saw NATO and aligned countries dig deep to support the Ukraine government in a grinding attritional land war.
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