NATO to ask Europe and Canada for 30% boost in military capacity

Baku, March 21, AZERTAC
NATO plans to ask European allies and Canada to increase their stocks of weaponry and equipment by about 30% in the next few years, according to a senior alliance official, Bloomberg reported.
New targets for the military capabilities of NATO allies, which would update ones set before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, are currently being discussed with the aim of adopting them by early June, when the alliance’s defense ministers gather in Brussels.
Reaching these new levels would require a massive financial effort from most European allies and Canada, while US outlays wouldn’t need to change, officials added.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is responding to the growing threat from Russia, as well as President Donald Trump’s drive to shift more of the burden for defense from the US to the rest of the alliance.
As currently envisioned, the new targets would require a 30% increase broadly across sectors in the volume of equipment, with some specific categories going up much more, or less, according to one of the officials, who like the others was granted anonymity to discuss sensitive plans.
According to the senior NATO official, these new targets, which will take 5 to 15 years to implement, will lead to a much stronger European and Canadian force within NATO that is less reliant on the US.
The US would largely be able to meet the new targets with equipment it already has. But most allies would need to raise defense spending to more than 3% of gross domestic product — a level that leaders are widely expected to set as their new spending target when they meet for a NATO summit in The Hague in late June.
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