The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania all have conscription, as do several of the Nordic countries, as well as Turkey and Greece.

A streamlined summit centering around a new pledge to increase defense spending has been designed to give the president a ...

NATO’s European allies are focused on getting through this week’s summit unscathed. But even if President Trump is satisfied ...

The first is that the US will continue to provide the mainstay of European defence efforts. The latest battle plans have this ...

NATO also needs to change the distribution of leadership and responsibility within the alliance. For over 75 years, NATO has ...

In their rush to retain Donald Trump's support for NATO, the alliance's European members have promised to more than double ...

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As I wrote in several articles, my sojourn in Europe was a culture shock on many levels . The most profound was how Europeans ...

While the U.S. — and countries in eastern Europe already above the 3.5 percent benchmark — prefer a deadline of 2030, smaller countries, struggling to reach the new goals, want until 2032 or 2035.

Yet it is far from clear whether Europe’s current efforts warrant such a description. For one, the continent is simply undergoing a return to military spending levels before 1989.