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Abstract This article analyzes the direct impact of increasing political and economic relations with globalization on the defense industry. In this context, with the assumption that increasing dependence relations with globalization result in crisis, the importance of the defense industry is aimed at questioning through the power of the national state. With globalization, the spread of industrialization into other regions, strengthening these regions, influenced the global power balance, led to the beginning of hegemony wars. Just before the global crisis, especially after 2000; when we look at the distribution of the 49% increase in defence spending in the 2000-2009 period, the United States is ranked primarily as China, France and the UK and Saudi Arabia. When the post-crisis expenditure is assessed, it is observed that the defence expenditure has declined relatively since 2010, and in 2015 it has reached $1.7 trillion due to increased political tensions. In the period 2010-2015, the US spent as much as the total of 14 countries that followed it, followed by China and Saudi Arabia. During the crisis, Europe has reduced its expenditure due to its valuation in the euro, and developing countries are investing in the development of weapons technologies. At this point, along with globalization, the national defence industry’s increased mutual dependence relations through transnational defence initiatives and supply chain creates compelling conditions for national wire producers to be part of the global network, where there is no internal state support. This also creates a cycle in the defense industry where American hegemony cannot be broken. However, when the crisis process is assessed, seven of the top 10 companies in the defense industry are U.S. companies. Defense industry expenditure that changes direction after the crisis periods is the main subject of the report. In this framework, the state of the defense industry will be examined through SIPRI data based on defense industry spending, defense industry trade and large companies in the defense industry.