| 21. | Algeria has the largest defence budget in Africa.
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| 22. | India increased its defence budget as it sought to acquire more state of the art equipment.
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| 23. | From the late 1970s to the late 1980s, defence budgets in South Africa were raised exponentially.
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| 24. | Australian annual defence budget-about $ 110 billion.
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| 25. | The Royal Navy, being the first line of defence, received the major proportion of the defence budget.
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| 26. | However, it was new and often lacked influential'friends'in the competition for a share of limited defence budgets.
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| 27. | In 2010, Belgium's defence budget totaled ?3.95 billion ( representing 1.12 % of its GDP ).
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| 28. | In the 2000 Russian defence budget the ship received more funding and the work on the ship continued.
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| 29. | It had an annual spend of almost ? billion, representing over 20 per cent of the Defence budget.
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| 30. | The answer can only lie in higher defence budgets and in smarter investment, using these budgets more effectively.
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