Sri Lanka to slash military by a third to cut costs
COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka will slash its army by a third to 135,000 personnel by next year and to 100,000 by 2030, the state minister of defence said on Friday, as the country tries to cut costs in the face of its worst economic crisis in more than seven decades. “Military spending is basically state-borne …
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