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Can NATO Allies Effectively Utilize Increases in Defense Spending?

New Atlanticist
Sep 19, 2025

Three things to note in the UK’s new Defence Industrial Strategy

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Deborah Cheverton

“Defence is an Engine for Growth,” according to an important new British military strategy published on September 8.

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Can NATO Allies Effectively Utilize Increases in Defense Spending?

New Atlanticist
Jul 17, 2025

Macron and Starmer have a plan to reset Anglo-French relations. What’s in this ‘Entente Industrielle’?

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Philippe Dickinson

The French president’s three-day trip to the United Kingdom saw several notable and welcome announcements. But the real test will be what comes next.

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Can NATO Allies Effectively Utilize Increases in Defense Spending?

New Atlanticist
Jun 4, 2025

The UK Strategic Defence Review lays out an ambitious roadmap for reform. Will the government deliver?

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AM Sir Christopher Harper, KBE, RAF (Ret.)

The review is a positive step toward revitalizing the United Kingdom’s defense posture, but its success will depend on funding and follow-through.

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NATOSource

Jul 18, 2018

Can NATO Allies Effectively Utilize Increases in Defense Spending?

By Andrew Clevenger, Roll Call

Decreases in NATO members’ defense budgets in the years before Vladimir Putin’s takeover of Crimea in 2014 created readiness problems in Europe just as they have in America,

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President Donald Trump, July 12, 2018 (photo: NATO)

NATOSource

Jul 17, 2018

Trump on NATO Summit: ‘Yes, There Was Fighting’

By Donald Trump and Theresa May, White House

[Excerpts from joint press conference by President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May, July 13, 2018]

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Inflection Points

Jul 16, 2018

Trump in three acts

By Frederick Kempe

In the end, dramaturgist Trump confounded both the hand-wringers and the hopefuls. Never has a NATO Summit simultaneously produced so much good news and such bad blood.

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New Atlanticist

Jul 13, 2018

Donald Trump and Theresa May: On the Issues

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Donald J. Trump and Theresa May attempted to paper over their differences—at least in public—at a joint press conference on July 13. This interaction followed a controversial interview Trump gave to the British tabloid The Sun in which  the US president criticized the British prime minister’s approach to Brexit. Here’s a look at where the […]

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New Atlanticist

Jul 13, 2018

In the United Kingdom, Trump and May Put Up a United Front

By David Wemer

A day after a dramatic back and forth with NATO allies over defense spending in Brussels, US President Donald J. Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom has once again provided wild swings from apparent discord between the president and his allies, to firm commitments of unity and claims of success.

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New Atlanticist

Jul 10, 2018

A Waning US-UK ‘Special Relationship’

By David Wemer

A week Theresa May was dreading got a whole lot worse on July 9. The British prime minister is set to host US President Donald J. Trump on July 13, while also trying to save her government from collapse. May’s recent troubles are due to the lasting divisions within her Conservative Party on the proper […]

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New Atlanticist

Jul 10, 2018

Brexit: One Failed Plan, Two Resignations, and Plenty of Uncertainty

By Bart Oosterveld and Jörn Fleck

The illusion that British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative government had come up with something resembling a workable Brexit plan after months of uncertainty over the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union (EU) lasted little more than two days. On July 6, it appeared May had won support of her cabinet for some […]

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New Atlanticist

Jul 9, 2018

The Brexit Showdown

By Ashish Kumar Sen

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government was engulfed in turmoil on July 9 as she lost two senior Cabinet members over her plans for a soft Brexit. Within a span of twenty-four hours, David Davis resigned as Brexit secretary and Boris Johnson as foreign secretary. If forty-eight members of Parliament write letters of no confidence, […]

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NATOSource

Jul 7, 2018

Senior US Official: Trump Wants to Cut American Defense Spending in Europe

By Greg Jaffe, Josh Dawsey, and Carol Leonnig, Washington Post

President Trump will land in Europe next week amid fears that he will blow up a key summit focused on Europe’s defense

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UK Defense Minister Gavin Williamson & Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, November 20, 2017 (photo: Sgt. Jette Carr/Department of Defense)

NATOSource

Jul 4, 2018

Mattis Letter Warns that British Defense Capabilities are at Risk

By Reuters

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis threatened to replace Britain with France as its main military ally unless London ramps up its defense spending,

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