The Spanish government has committed to NATO to increase the number of troops by 11 percent, or 14.000, within ten years, ...

But Spain remains a rare holdout, angering U.S. President Donald Trump, who has painted the policy as a personal win.

Italy, along with other NATO countries, has agreed to sharply increase defence spending over the next decade, but Giorgia ...

Germany Hit With NATO Troop Bombshell! 40,000 Soldiers Needed to Stop Putin. Story by Ruta Deshpande ... but aims to boost that number to between 120 and 130—a staggering 50% increase.

NATO leaders agreed to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP and renewed their “ironclad commitment” to mutual security in an historic move to push back against an increasingly belligerent ...

Diplomatic tensions deepened further when the U.S. voted against a resolution at the United Nations condemning Russia’s ...

The current defense budget can’t patch all the gaps left by years of under-investment, and Belgium will focus on priority ...

BRUSSELS — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his NATO counterparts are considering leaving 8,000 to 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014, but it was unclear how much of that force would be ...

The aim now is to raise the bar to 3.5% for core defense spending on tanks, warplanes, air defense, missiles and hiring extra troops. A further 1.5% would be spent on things like roads, bridges ...

Momentum in Europe is building: years of marginal steps to bolster European defenses gave way to meaningful action after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, and these efforts have accelerated in the six ...

The House and Senate Armed Services Committees unveiled legislation Friday supporting a 3.8% pay raise for service members ...

Spain has rejected a NATO proposal to spend 5% of GDP on defense needs that’s expected to be announced next week, calling it “unreasonable.” In a letter sent Thursday to NATO Secretary ...