NATO allies reached an agreement this week to increase their defense spending to 5% of GDP within a decade, with 3.5% to go toward core defense and the remaining 1.5% of GDP on indirect defense spending, including cybersecurity capabilities. The expanded range of what amounts to defense spending — now including investments in energy and supply chain resilience, logistics infrastructure and innovation — relates immediately to strategic concerns highlighted by Russia’s full-blown invasion of Ukraine and also to the systemic challenges posed by what NATO describes as China’s “stated ambitions and coercive policies.”. Investment in defenses against cyberattacks comes as experts warn that even incidents below the threshold of starting an armed conflict are having “strategically consequential effects” on NATO allies, and as NATO itself agreed to launch an integrated cyberdefense center at its military headquarters in Mons, Belgium.
NATO members aim for spending 5% of GDP on defense, with 1.5% eligible for cyber (Alexander Martin – The Record)
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