2月28日,美国总统布什向国会提交了总额达3189亿美元的2002财政年度国防预算,比国会批准的2001财年国防预算增加了89亿美元。同日,印度宣布在去年增加军费28％的基础上,今年再增加12.86％(约合16.4亿美元),使国防开支达到150.6亿美元。此前不久,俄罗斯、日本、韩国等国也纷纷宣布增加各自的年度防务开支。至此,起自20世纪90年代末的增加军费热潮,在迈入新世纪的门槛后,又掀起新的热浪。 止跌回升 纷纷上扬 20世纪90年代初期,随着冷战的结束,特别是原苏联的解体,东西方两大军事集团 On February 28, U.S. President Bush submitted a defense budget for fiscal year 2002 of up to 318.9 billion U.S. dollars to Congress, an increase of 8.9 billion U.S. dollars over the national defense budget approved by Congress in fiscal year 2001. On the very same day, India announced that it will increase its military spending by another 12.86% (about 1.64 billion U.S. dollars) this year, bringing its defense spending to 15.06 billion U.S. dollars. Not long ago, Russia, Japan, South Korea and other countries have also announced increases in their annual defense spending. At this point, since the end of the 1990s, the increase in military spending has set off a new heat wave after it entered the threshold of the new century. The rise and fall have risen one after another In the early 1990s, with the end of the Cold War, especially the dissolution of the former Soviet Union, the two major military blocs in the East and the West