Kazakhstan and Central Asia Defence & Security Report Q4 2014 - New Study Released
At present, Kazakhstan and the other four Central Asia countries, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan have limited defence budgets, yet numerous requirements. While BMI expects these budgets to increase incrementally over the coming years, BMI also expects the budgetary and underdevelopment challenges to limit those increases considerably. These countries face numerous internal and external security challenges. Border disputes, criminality, domestic infighting and domestic and transnational terrorism are just a few of those challenges.
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