Europe hopes to pile a massive £670bn surge into expanding its military might across the continent to outmatch deadly threats from hostile states like Russia and China . Across the continent countries are re-arming in an ominous throw-back to the Cold War as the drums of conflict are beating towards a major Russia confrontation in the future. Britain is backing its Euro-NATO allies by surging its defence spending to 2.5% of Gross Domestic Product - an increase of £13.4bn a-year on top of £67.