PENTAGON — U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has called for NATO’s European members to increase their role in the defense of Europe as the United States focuses on defending the alliance’s Pacific flank. It is a move that he says will likely require European allies to significantly increase defense spending from 2% of GDP to […]
Disarmament advocate Beatrice Fihn stressed that the exercise is practice for “wiping out hundreds of thousands of civilians” with weapons that would also “flatten cities and poison survivors.” The NATO military block announced Friday that its annual nuclear exercise is set to begin this week—news that arrived just as Japanese atomic bomb survivors who advocate […]
A Republican Party that years ago would push back when Donald Trump denigrated NATO has been more ambivalent in the days since the former president said he would encourage Russia to attack alliance members who he felt were not contributing enough to the common defense. While some in the party distanced themselves from Trump’s comments, […]
Anti-war campaigners responded that “this is not the path to peace and will not make the world safer.” The head of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization announced Monday that the military alliance will dramatically increase the ranks of its high-readiness forces from 40,000 at present to “well over 300,000″—a 650% boost—as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rages […]