Should the government increase or decrease military spending?

NZ has a woeful record of defence spending. It needs to have the capability to protect its interests and region. It must not get dragged into alliances that are of no benefit to NZ.

Increase a lot so that if I join the air force I get to fly planes

Uneducated in this to give an informed decision

navy should have many small bases with coastal boats , torpedo and minigun armed. air force should have fast deploy heavily armed jets for coastal protection . army should specialize in coastal defense and guerilla warfare

Remain the same but extra careful on where the money goes.

Increase, and allow children under the age of 13 to join the millitary

Yes but only for military aid of other countries

Increase but to buy more NZ required equipment and pay for better wages, more NZ based staff and training for deployment within New Zealand only or to assist in pacific nations non military rescue.

Stop paying higher ranking officials so much and wasting money on frivolous spending within military

Increase, but the current military spending should be investigated and made more efficient

Only if it is to better our NZ defence if they were to be a war against us.

Yes, but only for natural disaster response

Reform from a military force into a civil defence force

Add funding to support our military in responding to natural disasters at hom

Spending should reflect the needs of our defence services especially as it relates to maintenance of equipment and staffing in order to provide peacekeeping and emergency relief, support of allies, and to ensure they can respond appropriately in a time of crisis

Yes, but not on WMD. #staynuclearfree

Increase but as a way to upskill youth and help them get into the workforce with out student loans

Decrease, fighting in international wars but increase for essential country service such as the emergency landing site in Ohakea

Increase, but consistency needs to be maintained between periods of relative peace and upheaval to keep the right people in the right roles.

They don't need extra money because we are never under attack but we shouldn't take money away incase there is an attack

when our military cargo planes the Hercules/hercs are 50 years old and we denied ourselves access to jets that could of helped and still can help with the countries defences and most of our planes are from the 90's or earlier

2% of GDP 48% police deparment, 30% Nuclearand biological Research, 10% food for the rich, and the rest to line the pockets of the rich

Increase, and make our youth more patriotic/nationalistic to new zealand whether they are european or maori/islander

I think we should decrease the spending because we are not in any trouble and I don't think that any country will attack us.

it depends on the current rate of spending at that does not seem to be something clearly transparent or somewhat publically made avaliable "or known of to be"

Maintain current spending, ensure money is spent on peacekeeping, environmental security, foreign aid/disaster relief.

As an industry the trains and supports growth of a work force, yes.

Increase, to allow 2 year compulsory training of NZers, provision of material resources, weapons and naval, army and airforce equipment to support this and

Increase for training of high skilled people and retain them for nz sush as for health and education.

Decrease. Let the 'special interest groups' fund their own wars.

Yes, but military activity should be limited to relief, peacekeeping and fishery protection roles

We should combine spending with Australia and create a defending force.

No thought on the issue or matter.

Not an expert

Peace keeping and defense only.

Increase only if used for the protection of our own people in emergencies such as floods/hurricanes; decrease for warfare

Increase: combine all groups, coast guards, military, airforce, navy etc, into one group and work together

We should only have a navy as we are a small island, but have new boats and equipment, with the coast guard as a support to the navy.

Increase but specifically to deal with personnel issues

Pay Australia to defend us with their military

i think its good how it is

depends on what necessary

About the same or less but use for civil emergencies not war.

Increase the budget on education and healthcare instead of military.

Increase, but only because global-geopolitics is going to become more turbulent in the future.

Increase where necessary to ensure we can patrol and protect our borders and also to ensure military help for emergencies

Dependent on world hostilities

Complex and circumstantial

The military should be disbanded and abolished

We should become neutral and have armed forces for aid or fisheries protection only

Increase, but target their activities to more local needs to help fill the gaps in our policing.

Don’t care / know what that means

If it strengthens the military then increase

If it’ll strengthen the military then increase

Increase, but we should be using our militaries skills more locally during emergencies. Peacekeeping to free up our police, clean up and construction coordination

Decrease, put the funds into a civil defence force.

Yes. For responding to disasters.

yes when appropriate, when needed yes.

Not enough knowledge to have a stance

Increase but make them more prevalent when community's are in destress they are deployed immediately.

Increase to improve protection of our ocean fisheries.

better targeted

We should focus on protecting our coastal borders increasing Naval capacity, fishing grounds and maintain relations with 5 eyes network providing humanitarian support as needed.

New zealand should be de-militarized and funds repurposed into education and health.

Increase for domestic projects and aid-rendering capabilities

It’s ok to have the same spending but Should not get involved in Europe’s wars - should be protecting our interests in the pacific

Uncertain, I'm not familiar with the current spending.

There should be less fixation on arbitrary spending and instead restructure how we view the military with resources distributed accordingly. This includes the end of imperialist behaviour and instead a shift towards defence and peacekeeping when possible.

New Zealand should spend as much as is necessary to maintain staff and hardware required for ally support and national defence.

Yes, but we should fixate less on surface-level spending and instead look towards restructuring our military relations. A functional military service should end imperial influence and focus on sufficiency while benefitting the lives of civilians and our allies in the Pacific.

To patrol our waters and on peacekeeping operations only

Become a marine based elite fighting force.

Dissolve military into more policing and civil works

Any school leavers who do not have a job to go to, or a training institute, should be required to join the military for life skills and training, thus the government will need to spend more in investing in our youth. This should be cost effective

make is so that we have enough force to defend if something actually happens but no massive spend

Increase, but only with the focus on disaster and emergency response, not armed conflict.

NZ is most effective in sigint, (signal intelligence) invest there instead

I know nothing about this can’t comment but maybe stay the same because we don’t have military threat there are better things to spend it on

Create a version of the US system with a “pentagon” like organization that allows you to use tax payer dollars to support high tech industry so that you can compete in the highest and fastest growing markets in the world. This illusion is called the military industrial complex but it’s really not for military spending it’s a guise to use the populations taxes to fund high tech industries.

I'm unsure of the amount spent

Increase to attack U.S

I believe it should be increased but only after they have figured out a better long-term plan for our military. Personally i feel we should be investing in a far better navy or even coast guard. It would be very hard for most countries to even attempt to invade if we had sea power because we're so far from anywhere that they'd have a lot of difficulty with logistics.

I'd have no idea what they need or are required for

Yes, by a lot. We need armoured vehicles (e.g. main battle tanks, armoured fighting vehicles), artillery (e.g. HIMARS multiple rocket launcher system), air defence systems (e.g. Patriot missile defence), more powerful navy ships (e.g. more advanced frigates, destroyers and cruisers, as well as submarines), and of course we need fighter aircraft (e.g. F-35, F-15EX, F-16V, Eurofighter Typhoon, Dassault Rafale). Also allow nuclear-powered vessels such as ships and submarines. We also need more soldiers. Our current military is too weak and lags too far behind other OECD countries and our allies.…  Read more This is not 10 years ago. Geopolitical tensions are increasing to a breaking point, and soon we may have to choose a side, and therefore get caught in the middle of it. We should also negotiate a military alliance with the United States, Australia, Great Britain, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, Canada, and perhaps NATO. If that will jeopardise our safety too much, then prioritise one with the USA, Australia, Britain and Canada first, before potentially adding Japan and South Korea, the Philippines, and then Taiwan and other NATO countries.

Don't have enough info about this

Don’t know how much they spend

Decrease Militarization while increasing humanitarian efforts.

Increase and improve pay

we need to spend all money on our military including our air force, Navy, Army and we need nuks

Increase but only after the deficit is drastically reduced. Have sufficient resources ready for disposal in the event of a significant natural disaster.

We should be spending more on fixing issues with healthcare and poverty

Formally abolish the military

its all good

Only for crisis response increase

Aslong as it goes towards a more supporting environment that encourages holistic health and reduces institutional bullying and toxic behavior

Get rid of all

no just stay the same

Increase and bring in more training for Fire /Flood and other National disaster responses that

After the length of time it take for our military to get into action after a natural disaster, I hate to thing what it would be like if we were invaded.