The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine approved its program. Throughout the three-month course ... Defense commanders to plan a battle according to the standards of NATO armies.

The head of NATO says members need to increase their air and missile defenses by 400% to counter the threat from Russia and ...

NATO defense ministers meet on June 5 in a last ministerial meeting before the big annual NATO summit on June 24-25, when the ...

WASHINGTON — When NATO leaders ... to raise the defense spending level to 2 percent of GDP by this year. They almost made it. In 2014, immediately after Russia roused the slumbering alliance by ...

PARIS - The Netherlands worked out the costs of meeting NATO's new capability targets, providing a taste of the billion-euro budget challenge European members of the alliance face to boost their ...

NATO defense ministers are proposing a 5% annual investment in defense spending by member nations to enhance defensive ...

Philippe Lavigne, a retired French general, was Chief of Staff of the French Air and Space Force from 2018 to 2021, then NATO ...

Russia’s war in Ukraine, which will be a central topic of the summit, has spurred nearly the entire alliance to increase its defense spending ... Ten years ago, only three NATO members hit ...

kept its defense spending considerably lower, comforted by the presence of U.S. troops and NATO’s Article 5 commitment. By 1990, the United States was spending more than three times as much on ...

In 2006, allies pledged to spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense, but when Trump took office a decade later, only three ... capable, battle-hardened, NATO ...

LONDON (AP) — NATO ... “a battle-ready, armor-clad nation.” The plans represent the most sweeping changes to British defenses since the collapse of the Soviet Union more than three decades ...

The three countries have the biggest defense budgets of European NATO members, spending a little over 2% of GDP on their military. The Netherlands is Europe’s sixth-biggest spender, lifting its ...