About MilitarySpend

Mission

MilitarySpend exists to document military spending, war costs, and defense economics with the same rigor applied to any other public-interest beat. The publication combines live trackers, research briefings, and longer reports — all built on cited public records — so readers can move from a headline number to the evidence behind it without hitting a paywall or an institutional subscription.

Editorial Team

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Roman Kukhalashvili

Founder

Roman Kukhalashvili is an independent researcher focused on defense spending, war costs, and the economics of military power. He founded MilitarySpend to turn primary-source budget documents, congressional disclosures, and institutional estimates (CBO, CRS, CSIS, SIPRI, Brown Costs of War) into live trackers and briefings a non-specialist reader can follow. He leads sourcing, methodology, and editorial review for every figure published on the site.

Email:

kukhalashvili09@gmail.com

X / Twitter:

@kuxala09

GitHub:

github.com/kuxala

Editorial Standards

• Independence

  MilitarySpend takes no money from defense contractors, lobbying groups, or state actors. The publication is reader-supported and editorially independent.

• Sourcing policy

  Every tracker figure and report claim ties back to a named public source — SIPRI, IISS, CBO, DoD budget documents, congressional testimony, or official ministry releases.

• Corrections policy

  Errors are fixed visibly and logged on the corrections page. We update the figure, note the change, and preserve the prior number so the revision is auditable.

• Methodology transparency

  Estimation methods, assumptions, and data cut-off dates are documented on the methodology page and linked from the relevant tracker or report.

• Funding disclosure

  The site is reader-supported and carries no advertiser sponsorship or paid placement. Any future funding sources will be disclosed on this page before they take effect.

How We Work

MilitarySpend runs as a small, transparent pipeline. The intent is that any reader can audit how a number on the site came to be published.

1. Step 1

   Daily automated maintenance

   Scheduled jobs refresh tracker inputs from public feeds and budget documents. Automated commits are logged in the repository history for auditability.

2. Step 2

   Manual review of major figures

   Headline numbers — total spend, war cost estimates, procurement totals — are reviewed by hand against primary documents before publication.

3. Step 3

   Cited sources on every tracker

   Each live tracker links out to the source documents behind its inputs, with cut-off dates and estimation notes where applicable.

4. Step 4

   Open methodology

   The reasoning behind each model is written up in plain language on the methodology page. Readers can reproduce or challenge the approach.

Editorial principles

What the publication covers

How the site is organized

MilitarySpend is built in layers. The home page shows live trackers, briefings explain current developments, reports carry longer analysis, and the trust pages document the source trail behind the work.

Why it exists

Military spending is often reduced to a headline total or a partisan talking point. The publication exists to restore context: what the number covers, what it misses, who benefits, what it costs, and how the evidence changes over time.