Saudi Arabia

Faced with both internal and external threats and awash in petrodollars, Saudi Arabia has continued to allocate large sums of state spending toward defense and security matters, gradually bringing the country into the club of top five defense-investing nations.  The country even briefly topped the list in 2014.

Yet, while the Saudis are heavy defense investors, they often seem to be making large, expensive procurement purchases with little thought about how the selected platforms...