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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Russian President Vladimir Putin, June 24, 2014

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Jul 3, 2014

Putin’s NATO Fears Are Groundless

By Steven Pifer, Moscow Times

President Vladimir Putin appears to have a NATO phobia.

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In the News

Jul 3, 2014

Ullman: NATO’s Weakest Flank and Softest Underbelly

By Harlan Ullman

Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Adviser Harlan Ullman writes for UPI on reinforcing the so-called northern and southern flanks of NATO immediately adjacent to Russia and her Warsaw Pact allies:

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New Atlanticist

Jul 3, 2014

Amid Ukraine Crisis, Can US and NATO Buttress Support for Georgia?

By James Rupert

As Putin Faces Added Crises, NATO Can Push Georgia’s Membership Bid, Analysts Say  As the United States and NATO ponder how best to support a democratizing Ukraine against Russia’s ongoing attacks, the crisis over Ukraine has raised the stakes on an adjacent issue – whether NATO should accept Georgia’s eager request to join the alliance. […]

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Jul 2, 2014

Here’s How NATO Can Open a Path to Membership for Georgia

By Edward P. Joseph and Mamuka Tsereteli

Amid Ukraine Crisis, US Should Push to Remove an Obstacle Mae West once said that “an ounce of performance is worth a pound of promises.” For Georgians, to whom NATO promised eventual membership in the alliance back in 2008, truer words have never been spoken. NATO’s standard procedure is to require candidate member states to […]

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Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze and Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, June 24, 2014

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Jul 2, 2014

If NATO Delays Path to Georgia’s Membership, What Is the Alternative?

By Tedo Japaridze, New Atlanticist

In the same week that the European Union signed an association agreement with Georgia on June 27, NATO officials meeting in Brussels decided not to offer the country a formal plan this year to achieve membership in the alliance.

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Mistral class ship under construction, St. Nazaire

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Jul 2, 2014

NATO Should Buy French-built Warships

By Eliot Engel, World Affairs

[L]ast month I wrote to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, urging a plan by which the alliance would collectively purchase or lease the warships as a common naval asset.

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EUCOM soldiers training in Germany, October 13, 2012

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Jul 2, 2014

Brzezinski: The West Should Arm Ukraine

By Zbigniew Brzezinski, American Interest

If Ukraine has to be supported so that it does resist, the Ukrainians have to know the West is prepared to help them resist. And there’s no reason to be secretive about it.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, June 27, 2014

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Jul 2, 2014

Putin Vows to ‘Actively Defend’ Russians Living Abroad

By New York Times and Office of the President of Russia

From  David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times: The simmering standoff in eastern Ukraine exploded into warfare early Tuesday, pushing the conflict to a dangerous new phase and prompting President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to warn again that he reserves the right to use force to defend Russian-speaking citizens.

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German Eurofighter Typhoon

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Jul 1, 2014

Is Germany Willing to Defend the Baltics?

By Christiane Hoffmann and Rene Pfister, Spiegel

Excerpts from Spiegel interview with historian Heinrich August Winkler.

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NATO updates its cyber policy

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Jun 30, 2014

NATO Updates Policy: Offers Members Article 5 Protection Against Cyber Attacks

By Steve Ranger, ZDNet

Reflecting how all international conflicts now have some digital component, NATO has updated its cyber defence policy to make it clear that a cyber attack can be treated as the equivalent of an attack with conventional weapons.

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