TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Country survey: military expenditure and defence policy in Norway 1970-2013
JO  - Defence and peace economics
A1  - Johnson, Alexander Urnes
A1  - Hove, Kjetil
A1  - Lillekvelland, Tobias
SP  - 669
EP  - 685
VL  - 28
IS  - 6
N2  - This article examines military expenditure and defence policy in Norway from 1970 to 2013. Until 1990 Norwegian military expenditure remained between 2.5 and 3.0 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Despite constant GDP shares, the military expenditure could not sustain a large and properly armed mobilization army. The constant nominal defence budgets of the 1990s accentuated the Norwegian Armed Forces' underlying imbalance between tasks, structure and budget. Around year 2000, large organizational reforms were effectuated, in which costs, the number of man-years, and underlying imbalances between tasks, structure and budget were reduced. Military expenditure increased in nominal terms between 2003 and 2013, while real military expenditure remained practically constant.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1024-2694
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2015.1101896
ID  - ref1
ER  -