At Saab’s sprawling combat production center in Karlskoga, Sweden, the 84-millimeter shells that can take out a battle tank in a single stroke are carefully assembled by hand. One worker stacked tagliatelle-shaped strips of explosive propellant in a tray. Outside the squat building, one of hundreds in the guarded industrial park, construction is underway on another factory. The enlargement is part of a titanic expansion in military spending that every country in Europe has undertaken since Russia invaded Ukraine 18 months ago. “Investing more in an uncoordinated manner will only marginally improve a dysfunctional status quo.”

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Persons: Alfred Nobel, —, ” Organizations: Center for Strategic, International Studies Locations: Karlskoga, Sweden, Europe, Russia, Ukraine