national defence budget

基本解释

ON SEPTEMBER 17th the newly formed National Security Council (NSC), chaired by the prime minister, David Cameron, will begin discussing how to cut Britain’s defence budget.
在9月17日，新成立的，由首相卡梅隆主持的国家安全委员会（NSC）将开始讨论如何削减英国的国防预算。
But to achieve reasonable scale despite a relatively small national defence budget, and to compete with rivals many times its size, IAI has been obliged to chase foreign sales.
由于国家的国防预算相对较少，还要与实力远胜于己的大公司竞争，为了实现可观的销售收入，公司不得不进军国际市场。

But to achieve reasonable scale despite a relatively small national defence budget, and to compete with rivals many times its size, IAI has been obliged to chase foreign sales.
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The balance between revising national defence and security strategy ( or lack thereof) and budget constraints will be picked over for a long time once the SDSR is published, which may be at the end of October.
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