Rutte Announces NATO’s “Most Massive Transformation” in Decades
NATO’s transition to NATO 3.0 will be the bloc’s biggest transformation in a generation, Secretary General Mark Rutte said. He called for increased investment by Allies in long-range precision weapons and air defense systems.
NATO’s transition to NATO 3.0 will be the bloc’s biggest transformation in a generation, Secretary General Mark Rutte said. He called for increased investment by Allies in long-range precision weapons and air defense systems.
“We must now channel our new momentum into a sustainable transformation that will drive change,” Mark Rutte told the Ditchley Foundation. At the NATO summit in Ankara in July, the bloc announced new arms purchases worth more than $50 billion.
NATO members plan to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP by 2035. According to Mark Rutte, the European countries of the bloc and Canada already spend about 4% of GDP on defense.
On the plans of the bloc to strengthen defense — in the material “Kommersant” “NATO is preparing for the worst.”.
