Defense Spending

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Emotional signature

Anxiety-related words per 1,000 words of matching English-language coverage (LIWC dictionaries via GDELT's GCAM). Latest day: 10.8 anxiety · 8.1 anger · 18.9 positive emotion. Tone says whether coverage reads negative; these say what kind of negative.

Where this coverage comes from

Share of matching coverage, from GDELT breakdowns (as of 2026-08-21). Tone split: 100% of articles read distinctly negative, 0% distinctly positive.

In focus by country

• United States (89)
• United Kingdom (45)
• Turkey (35)
• Ukraine (28)
• Iran (27)
• Spain (25)
• China (22)
• Russia (17)

Countries where Defense Spending coverage concentrates — each links to the stories and headlines for that intersection.

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily human pageviews of the topic's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage measures what the press supplies; this measures what readers seek out. Week-over-week: coverage +47.4%, reader interest -6.1% — supply and demand are diverging.

Top recent articles

1. Taiwan Plans Record High Defense Spending — marinelink.com
2. Norway Boosts Defense Footprint with Expansion of Arctic Brigade — gcaptain.com
3. Президент Чехії : видатки на оборону наступного року мають перевищити 2 % — eurointegration.com.ua
4. Taiwan Proposes $35 Billion in Defense Spending as Drone Funding Fight Continues — theepochtimes.com
5. Militär in der Arktis : Nato - Mitglied Norwegen rüstet Brigade nahe russischer Grenze auf — zeit.de
6. Νορβηγία : Ενισχύει την ταξιαρχία στα σύνορα με τη Ρωσία – Πυροβολικό και αντιαεροπορική άμυνα — skai.gr
7. The $1 trillion black box - Salon . com — salon.com
8. Pavel : Výdaje na obranu by příští rok měly být přes dvě procenta — idnes.cz
9. President Pavel: Defense spending should exceed 2% of GDP next year — english.radio.cz
10. Taiwan proposes boosting 2027 defence spending 18% to a record high — asiaone.com
11. Taiwan proposes a record $35B defense budget for 2027 as China military pressure grows – Winnipeg Free Press — winnipegfreepress.com
12. BNP Paribas Easy Bloomberg Europe Defense UCITS ETF Acc ( LU3047998896 ) im Check : Unterschied zum Marktführer WisdomTree — finanzen.net
13. Verteidigungsausgaben : Warum die Milliarden Sondervermögen für die Bundeswehr der Wirtschaft kaum helfen — az-online.de
14. Verteidigungsausgaben : Warum die Milliarden Sondervermögen für die Bundeswehr der Wirtschaft kaum helfen — wa.de
15. Verteidigungsausgaben : Warum die Milliarden Sondervermögen für die Bundeswehr der Wirtschaft kaum helfen — soester-anzeiger.de
16. Verteidigungsausgaben : Warum die Milliarden Sondervermögen für die Bundeswehr der Wirtschaft kaum helfen — hna.de
17. America Debt Hits $40 Trillion : Over $1T Interest Bill Nearly Matches Defense Spending — ibtimes.co.uk
18. Ταϊβάν : Ρεκόρ $35 , 1 δισ . για την άμυνα το 2027 — euro2day.gr
19. ABDnin ulusal borcu 40 trilyon doları aştı — dha.com.tr
20. Taiwan proposes boosting 2027 defense spending 18% to record high — nikkei.com
21. [ Key Points ] Lee backs Trump North Korea outreach , supports scaling back drills — koreaherald.com
22. ABDnin ulusal borcu 40 trilyon doları aştı — bursahakimiyet.com.tr
23. Global Market : European shares flat as oil prices offset bond market relief — economictimes.indiatimes.com
24. ABDnin borcu 40 trilyon doları aştı : Faiz ödemeleri savunma harcamalarını geçti — yenisafak.com
25. Cabinet approves 2027 budget plan, record defense spending — taipeitimes.com
26. Иран подготовил более мощное оружие на случай новой войны — aif.ru
27. Tinubu Orders Five - Year Plan to Tackle Nigeria Security Threats — allafrica.com
28. Cabinet approves 2027 budget proposal, defense spending at 3.01% of GDP — focustaiwan.tw
29. European shares muted as higher oil prices counter bond recovery — finance.yahoo.com
30. Downscaled S . Korea - US Military Drills Get Chilly Reception from N . Korea — world.kbs.co.kr
31. В Азии свели союз с США к « пустым словам » — lenta.ru
32. Politico : решения Трампа подталкивают Азию наращивать расходы на оборону — aif.ru
33. Taiwan proposes boosting 2027 defence spending by 18 % — freemalaysiatoday.com
34. Átlépte a 40 ezer milliárd dolláros határt az Egyesült Államok államadóssága — nepszava.hu
35. The US national debt now stands at $51t — asiaone.com
36. Politico : страны Азии наращивают расходы на оборону на фоне решений Трампа — russian.rt.com
37. Taiwan proposes boosting 2027 defence spending 18 % to a record high — yahoo.com
38. Politico узнало о беспокойстве в странах Азии из - за слов Трампа о Ким Чен Ыне — vesti.ru
39. Zůna: Czechia will meet 2 percent defence spending target in 2027 — english.radio.cz
40. Сразу несколько стран пошли на военные меры после слов Трампа о КНДР — lenta.ru

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Related fact-checks

• The government is spending an extra £270 billion on defence in this parliament.
  Incorrect. This figure refers to the Ministry of Defence’s total budget between 2025/26 and 2028/29, as outlined in the Spending Review (although an increase to this figure has now been announced). This figure does not refer to the year-on-year increases in the MoD’s budget.Full Fact · 2026-06-30
• President Donald Trump's proposed 2027 military budget would be "the largest spending increase since World War II.”
  Mostly TruePolitiFact · 2026-04-20
• President Donald Trump's proposed 2027 military budget would be "the largest spending increase since World War II.”
  Mostly TruePolitiFact · 2026-04-20
• In this Parliament, the government will spend £270 billion more on defence than it would otherwise have done.
  Incorrect. This figure refers to the Ministry of Defence’s total projected spend between 2025/26 and 2028/29, and is not how much spending will increase by.Full Fact · 2026-03-24
• The government is cutting defence spending by £2.6 billion from the Ministry of Defence budget this year.
  This is potentially misleading. This is the 2025/26 overspend which the Ministry of Defence was reportedly forecasting last summer. But the overall MoD budget is increasing.Full Fact · 2026-03-13

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Frequently asked questions

How much news coverage is Defense Spending receiving right now?

As of August 21, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up 0.003% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide, roughly 1 articles per day.

Is media coverage of Defense Spending increasing or decreasing?

Coverage is up 47.4% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before).

What is the tone of news coverage about Defense Spending?

The average GDELT tone of matching coverage is -2.49, which reads as mildly negative. Tone typically ranges from about -10 (very negative) to +10 (very positive).

How are these numbers measured?

Geotone processes the GDELT Project's 15-minute data files every two hours, matching this topic's fixed query against article titles across 65+ languages and aggregating counts and tone by UTC day. Coverage volume is the share of all GDELT-monitored articles matching the topic query; tone is the mean document tone. Full details are on the methodology page.