Inertia, waste and fraud in the military expenditure. Spanish Defense budget analysis in 2015

New report on Military Spending, analyzing the Spanish defense budget 2015 through an actual calculation of the Spanish military expenditure and expenditure items on which it is based.

It is produced for the first time since the crisis began in 2008, an increase of the Spanish military budget. This is a budget cheats defense because, knowing that the final expenditure on some items will be considerably higher, still hiding his intentions under the more inaccurate calculation of two significant items of Defense budget: the intended for PEAS and for the cost of military operations broad.

Authors: Pere Ortega and Jordi Calvo Rufanges.

You can download the report here in English, Spanish and Catalan.

Spanish Arms Exports 2004-2013 Does the government promote illegal arms exports?

The Centre Delàs publishes a new report on the Spanish arms exports, which analyzes the exports in 2013, through a historical perspective of the last decade. The report ask and tries to answer whether the government promotes illicit weapon exports.

According to the official statistics, in 2013, Spain exported, approximately 3,907 million euros in weapons. This figure is twice the exports in 2012 (1,953 million euros) and ten times greater than in 2004.

Authors: Tica Font, Eduardo Melero and Camino Simarro.

You can download the report here in English, Spanish and Catalan.

Military Drones. The videogame war with real victims

This Report analyses the characteristics and the history of the combat drones, the controversy of the use to commit selective murders, and the volume of business that can mean to the military industry. It also provides an analyses of the legality and legitimacy of military drones, and the intent of its intensive use in armed conflicts in the coming decades.

Authors: Jordi Calvo, Anna Escoda, Carles Blanco and Gabriela Serra.

You can download the report here in English, Spanish and Catalan.

Rajoy's Government Military Policy

This report analyzes Rajoy’s military policy, the legislative changes that affect the Spanish Armed Forces and mainly focuses on the treatment of its members.

Authors: Tomàs Gisbert, María de Lluc Bagur and Gemma Amorós.

You can download the report here in English, Spanish and Catalan.

El militarismo en el Norte de África. El papel de las fuerzas armadas desde la descolonización a las revueltas.

Este informe propone una mirada al papel de las fuerzas armadas y el militarismo en seis países del norte de África (Mauritania, Marruecos, Argelia, Túnez, Libia y Egipto).

Autores: Blanca Camps-Febrer and Pere Ortega.

You can download the report here in Spanish and Catalan. Soon in English.

Defense, security, and occupation as a business. Military, armaments and security trade relations between Spain and Israel.

This Report analyses a set of trade relations on security and defense between Spain and Israel and complement another report made in 2009.

Authors: Alejandro Pozo (Dir.), Camino Simarro and Oriol Sabaté.

You can download the report here in English, Spanish or Catalan.

The Evolution of the Armed forces in Spain. How to reduce the financing of of weapon companies?

Update in the investment of weapons of the armed banks that operate in Spain, to October 2013. It includes an analysis of policies and regulations limiting the financing of weapon companies.

Authors: Jordi Calvo Rufanges, Jordi Alsina, Ainhoa Díaz, Arnau Jordà, Cristina Mediavilla and Blanca Nogueras

You can download the report here in Spanish. Soon in English and Catalan.

The Dark Side of Military Expenditure. The 2014 Military Budget

Ministry of Defense expenditures vary far from the initial estimates in the budget, so that the final total at the end of the year may be vastly greater than that which was initially approved.

Authors: Pere Ortega, Xavier Bohigas and John Doe.

You can download the report here in English, Spanish or Catalan.