Should the government increase or decrease military spending?

Only if tensions are rising and war could happen

look at best value for purchases and how they are worked out

decrease, abolish the military

Increase in terms of defensive equipment and technology with an inclusive military, that is volunteer filled.

I've seen myself where the money is being spent. For instance hundreds of consoles, pcs and tvs. It needs to put a limit on where the money is going.

Maintain the same budget but isolate from foreign conflicts and aim to have diplomatic relationships with all countries

Increase, as we are currently living through tumultuous times in world politics, but ultimately decrease

Drastically reduce the cost of RnD spendeture and move that money towards re arming and recalling the current arsenal of the country including buying more challenger tanks and new rifles to replace the L85A2

There should be an overall decrease as nuclear weapons should be dismantled however spending on naval, ground and air defence should stay the same.

Keep as is, but make military more useful by having them involved much in more community service rather than training for fighting. Make community service at least 50% of their time spend.

Increase only if it's for defending our boarders and not attacking other countries for wars the public do not agree with

Increase to mitigate the cuts of the previous years. For example, our Royal Navy has been decimated by successive governments.

Isolationist; decrease overseas military spending but incerase defence spending on our shores and land. Don't get involved in wars unless other nations are planning to attack our country or if there's World War 3

Defense budgets should be fixed to a percentage of GDP. Prob around 3%

Decrease but use the money to invest into space program.

Abolish the current military structure, and implement a Japan styled 'self-defence' force based entirely on non-aggression, peacekeeping and self-defence principles.

Steadily increase spending on counter terroism agencies and the nuclear triad everything else can wait whilst we work on the economy first.

I’m ok With having a military force for protection of us or other countries but do not agree with active war fare

With my desire to restrict our activities in foreign wars, our defence funding should only be calculated for national needs.

Stay the same but with a more targeted approach toward technological advancements in defensive equipment such as anti-missle and drone.

Our armed forces are a joke compared to what they once were, money needs to be better spent before more is invested.

Increase. I served 7 years in the British Army and although we're one of the best trained Armies in the world, our equipment is old, outdated and in need of significant modernization.

Investment should be made in relevant areas, not unaffordable vanity projects such as aircraft carriers

Maintain, allow for adequate defense of territory without projection of power overseas or grandstanding

Dependant on situation, right now the world is an unsafe place so it would be foolish to decrease spending despite the cost of living.

The government needs to perform an inquiry into where military spending is going. As someone with friends in the military I am well aware that is it not being well spent. Only after this a rebalancing of finances should take place. In the current time period it is important to have a fully functioning military.

You won't need to adjust the amount you spend but lean the military!! They waste so much, I know from working within the military how much waste there is!!

Increase and also use its budget more effectively and distributing it in ways that the reforms made are more significant with more positive impact for the armed forces

Increase I guess? We should avoid another war by all means, there are far too many babies,small children and innocent animals in our country, a war would be devastating and I can guarantee a riot would ensue if war was coming for us. War is not safe, it is not needed, but should we targeted or attacked, we should absolutely be ready and able to defend our country so I guess keep finding the military to make sure they are able to keep us safe should the worst happen.

Potentially increase or decrease. This needs to be looked in how we are spending the money in the first place as im sure some of it is wasted / services are overpaid.

Stop contracting recruitment to Capita for a start, that'll save loads of money and actually get more people through the door. My application was delayed for literally years until I gave up and sought out other opportunities.

Neither, but it should remove the pension burden for service personnel from the defence budget to free up more spending on equipment and training

Increase until the military is modernised, then reduce to maintain a set level above the NATO minimum.

Decrease; we should focus on negotiating with our “enemies” because preparing to fight them will get us nowhere, but peace can go a long way.

Increase, but focus on home and commonwealth territories, not unwarranted excursions into foreign lands, or playing the mercenary to for called allies.

Increase, focus on defending British homeland and territories, but don't allow our troops to become mercenaries for our so called allies, and don't engage in unwarranted foreign wars.

Stop wasteful R&D, just buy American equipment to stop us wasting billions developing bad equipment ex. the Ajax.

ONLY should increase if it is concern to our country. Should not be using our tax payer money for other countries crises, we don't even have enough money in the country. A lot of people/citizen are struggling, use tax payer money for own country.

We are in a position where hostility’s are spreading around the world therefore we need to ensure we can protect our own country.

Decrease but not entirely abandon. The military spending takes up a lot of money that could be useful elsewhere

Increase, however de-prioritise trident and instead focus on high quality equipment and not the nuclear programme.

The military spending should be moderate and balanced with other priorities for Great Britain. A military spending which is appropriate for defending the nation.

Well ideally but one that’s dependent on our relationship with other countries in their world and two that’s dependent on the uk’s relative spending

Increase but the money should better spent on quality equipment for soldiers and contracts need to be under all kinds of scrutiny.

Increasing or reducing the amount of military spending must be adjusted to national and global conditions.

decrease military spending to be able to divert funding towards welfare initiatives, health and education sectors that need more funding instead of funding fighting and military interventions.

Decrease and concentrate resources on defence of the UK and not foreign adventures being USAs sidekick.

Yes - with everything going on in the world at the moment it’s good for us to be protected if needed

Slightly increase but focus more on diplomacy to avoid any potential conflicts, stay out of conflicts that don’t threaten the uk

Increase, all branches of the military are drastically underfunded and the UK is no longer a largw, competent fighting force.

If it is required to protect our country then yes but if it is not a necessary requirement then don’t waste money that could be used on housing homeless people and giving jobs to our citizens instead of the foreigners

More money in defence against cyber and environmental threats

A united, european defense system with a decreased milltary spending.

Increase but focus most of the spending on the navy, air force

spend less on this and more on national health service

Only if there is spare money

Depends on geopolitics

Disband the military with immediate effect

Yes but it can't be like the nhs

Increase spending on the navy.

The government should look to support ex service personnel more than they currently do now

Increase as long as the money goes towards supporting people moving on from the military and the mental health of all personnel.

Increase to modernise the living abd training facilities. Make sure they have the correct equipment relevant for their role and to make more opportunities for learning new skills, trades and qualifications

Increase, but only to help Military members that suffer from PTSD and other injuries or illnesses suffered whilst they were serving the country.

Increase but effectively. Don’t blow it on things we don’t need. Improve effectiveness and safety strategically. Also, link it to reducing misogyny and other discrimination across the forces.

The government needs to increase our military spending as we are a sitting duck, have no military readiness or actual capabilities. However, we can't really afford it right now so we need to fix our budget deficit before any major changes can be done.

Given that it is such a tiny percentage of GDP, it should be doubled. Putin is a very credible and current threat.

Increase, but spending should be targeted towards advanced technology in particular AI, Cyber security and autonomous drones.

The spend needs to be enough to defend ourselves and be very carefully monitored. No-one should profit from war.

divert finding into forging bridges of understanding between warring nations...and use money to improve our public services.

Increase for support and realisation of solider back into society giving them a safe space to learn a routine outside of military orders

Decrease - we should become a defence only military and put that money towards education, health and other services

The government should maintain the purchase of assets but decrease the cost. Defence procurement needs reform.

Decrease, to exactly 2% of GDP to comply with NATO, but in the long-term we should work towards leaving NATO and to decrease military spending to 0.5% of GDP with the intention of eventually cutting all military spending

Military spending should be better targeted not just applied as the requirements have clearly changed

Keep Tier 1 & 2 units (SF, Para, Marines, Rangers) as full time, encourage all other Tier 3 (infantry) units to move to Tier 1/2, remaining infantry become TA where they are paid for attendance and maintaining fitness status - this would enable rapid reaction/peace keeping forces/task forces to be utilised. A home guard of 10's of thousands would be available should we be invaded - this would save a large sum of money for the UK tax payer

Decrease, unless there's a threat of world war 3 (in which case we should increase it).

The reason about reduce and other is working about it's free trafes

Yes but only to aid Ukraine

I don't think this is a simple yes or no, it's very circumstantial and it depends where that budget goes.

Decrease the money spent on non-front line military such as the military bands

Increase due to current political climate, but also give priority to deficit

Increase, but streamline the services and improve the readiness of all three forces.

It should be at a minimum of 3% of GDP, with a view to increase this to 4% as soon as possible.

Increase, but only after our deficit is drastically reduced. The military should also be used, in peacetime, as to supplement services and to help emergency services.

The NATO 2% pledge is adequate

Decrease, and put the money into food and healthcare

It's a no brainer we have to maintain a military, we should spend according to need.

spend the current budget to the armed force rather than on nuclear figleafs

decrease, but put into place more reservist units rather than full time units so if an army is needed then it can be called up.

increase if tentions of war are present

Increase, by retiring nuclear weapons and reallocating the funding to something we might actually use

Decrease for now, we're in a cost of living crisis.

It should be maintained at a level that slows us to respond imminently but should not be detrimental to the coffers.

decrease but only for less fortunate departments. to be able to act appropriatly

Increase funding to certain areas like decarbonisation and upskilling which in turn improves national security

Depends on the current situation and potential legitimate threats

Military spending should be focused on defence as opposed to offence.

Increase - Only while the threat of a Russian invasion on NATO countries is possible