TRACKING NATO SPENDING


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Jun 20, 2025

NATO Defense Spending Tracker

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Kristen Taylor

The Transatlantic Security Initiative’s NATO defense spending tracker delves into data and figures to analyze current defense spending trends.

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Canadian CF-18, August 20, 2012

NATOSource

Oct 22, 2014

NATO Jets Intercept Russian Fighters Twice in Two Days Over Baltic

By Matti Huuhtanen, AP

NATO scrambled fighter jets – including two Canadian F-18s – twice in two days to intercept Russian military aircraft over the Baltic Sea, it said Tuesday amid reports that Russian military activity in the region is increasing.

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Official handover ceremony at Kandahar Airfield

NATOSource

Oct 21, 2014

NATO hands-over Kandahar airfield

By Royal Air Force

After eight years of running Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan, NATO has formally handed over control to the United States at an end of mission ceremony.

Afghanistan International Security Assistance Force
UA and Lithuanian troops in exercise Saber Strike, June 12, 2014

NATOSource

Oct 21, 2014

Baltic Security: Tensions on the Frontier

By Richard Milne and Neil Buckley, Financial Times

“We cannot shut off our memories. We know from our past how aggressive Russia can be if there is no very clear and strict action from the west against this kind of aggression,” says Marko Mihkelson,

NATO Northern Europe
Swedish Chief of Defense Gen. Sverker Goranson and US Gen. Joseph Dunford at NATO HQ, May 14, 2013

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Oct 21, 2014

Swedish Defense: Is NATO Inevitable?

By Editors of the Guardian

There is an element of farce about the latest submarine hunt in the Stockholm archipelago.

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NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow at the Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate

NATOSource

Oct 20, 2014

Strengthening NATO-Gulf Cooperation

By Alexander Vershbow, NATO

NATO is playing its part too. We all stand with our Ally Turkey, which is literally on the front line. And while the air campaign is not a NATO operation, NATO Allies provide the bulk of the military assets that are now being deployed to degrade ISIL.

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New Atlanticist

Oct 20, 2014

To Bolster Baltic States Against Russia’s Challenge, Here Is an Easy Victory

By Henrik Breitenbauch

An Impressive Nordic Defense Initiative Should Invite the Three Baltic Nations to Join As Russia’s attacks on Ukraine revive concerns about the security of its northwestern neighbors as well, last month’s NATO summit conference took two noteworthy steps, among others, to address the Russian danger. For one, the allies authorized a new quick-response force to […]

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Defense Industrialist

Oct 20, 2014

Can Coastal Artillery Backstop the Navy?

By James Hasik

Yes, but there are hard ways and easy ways for an army to stand up new capabilities.   The question of coastal artillery was all over the trade press last week, starting with a speech by Defense Secretary Hagel at the AUSA meeting. Hagel noted that for a century after 1812, the US Army protected American ports with a […]

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President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at the Wales Summit, Sept. 4, 2014

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Oct 17, 2014

Poll: Support for NATO Membership Grows In Ukraine

By AFP

The number of Ukrainians in favor of joining the NATO alliance has risen sharply during Kiev’s drawn-out conflict with pro-Russian rebels in the east of the country, a poll showed Thursday.

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German Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen, Jan. 31, 2014

NATOSource

Oct 16, 2014

A Crisis in German Defense

By Peter Dörrie, War is Boring

The German armed forces have come clean. They’ve admitted they’re incapable of managing arms procurement—and have systematically neglected the hardware that’s already in service.

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Noble Justification is a "high-density, high-threat scenario"

NATOSource

Oct 15, 2014

Over Twenty Warships Participating in NATO Exercise ‘Noble Justification’

By NATO

A large fleet of naval vessels is taking part in the multinational “Noble Justification” military exercise which is underway in the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.

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