The procurement of military systems may be used as a tool to achieve industrial objectives. Medium-sized industrialised countries have the choice of procuring foreign systems on the best economic terms available, or instead using defence procurement as a tool to build up domestic industrial and...

From the early 1980s Spain embarked on a wide-ranging process of military reform, from organisational changes to defence industrial policies. Investment in military equipment was set to grow, policies were drawn up to foster the domestic defence industrial base, defence R&D rocketed, and Spain...

The roles and structure of government defence research establishments are being redefined in several European countries. So far, large-scale government controlled defence research establishments have played a key function in the development of technological capabilities in the defence field....