Tag: NATO

All About Trump: the 2025 NATO Hague Summit (Ed Arnold – RUSI)

The main objective for NATO at the Hague Summit was to placate Trump and in doing so avoid the fallout that Ukrainian President Volodymir...

Five Priorities for Advancing NATO’s Space Mission (Anca Agachi, Shaan Shaikh, Bruce McClintock – RAND)

NATO has been throttling up its efforts in the space domain. In relatively fast order, the alliance has moved from recognizing the growing role...

Four fundamental questions the NATO Summit did not answer (Torrey Taussig – Atlantic Council)

NATO leaders are breathing a sigh of relief after a smooth summit in The Hague that projected allied unity and secured a new defense...

NATO members aim for spending 5% of GDP on defense, with 1.5% eligible for cyber (Alexander Martin – The Record)

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...

Future-proofing NATO’s industrial capacity: how decisions at the NATO Summit in The Hague will strengthen the Allied defence industry (NATO)

NATO Heads of State and Government have agreed new and ambitious Capability Targets and a new defence investment pledge of 5% of Gross Domestic...

NATO allies agreed to a 5 percent defense spending target in a low-drama summit. Now what? (Atlantic Council)

In Dutch, haag, from which The Hague gets its name, means hedge. It’s perhaps fitting, then, that when NATO leaders met in The Hague...

NATO summit overshadowed by cyber threats (DigWatch)

NATO’s 76th summit opened in The Hague amid rising tensions in Europe and the Middle East, overshadowed by conflict and cyber threats. Leaders gathered...

NATO defense spending tracker (Atlantic Council)

The Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative has launched a real-time NATO Defense Spending Tracker to offer a clearer and fuller picture of how allies...

What to expect at the NATO summit in The Hague (James Goldgeier, Sophie Roehse – Brookings)

NATO heads of state and government will meet at their upcoming summit on June 24-25 in The Hague, at a time when they face...

Georgian Dream Moves Away From North Atlantic Treaty Organization Aspirations (Beka Chedia – The Jamestown Foundation)

The Georgian Dream government announced that it will abolish the “Information Center on NATO and EU” on July 1, signaling its growing hostility toward...

North African Stability Powers Europe’s Energy Transition (Maurizio Geri – German Marshall Fund of the United States)

The dispute over the Western Sahara, despite being one of North Africa’s most protracted conflicts, has long been perceived as an issue with little...

G7 and NATO Tests Trump and European Leadership (Liana Fix – Council on Foreign Relations)

U.S. President Donald Trump will have the opportunity to come face-to-face with some of the United States’ closest allies twice this month. He will...

Geostrategic magazine (10 June 2025)

From global think tanks The analyses published here do not necessarily reflect the strategic thinking of The Global Eye Today’s about: Australia; China; China-Multilateral Cooperation-WTO; Europe-Russia-Ukraine-NATO;...

Three Big Questions for the 2025 NATO Summit (Emma Ashford, Nevada Joan Lee – Stimson Center)

In late June, US President Donald Trump will head to the Netherlands for the 2025 NATO summit, an affair which typically gives European, Canadian,...

As Rutte formally unveils NATO 5% spending proposal, Hegseth says some allies ‘not quite there’ (Tim Martin – Breaking Defense)

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte formally unveiled an already controversial two-tiered plan to boost allied spending to 5 percent of GDP, though a top...

Geostrategic magazine (6 June 2025)

From global think tanks The analyses published here do not necessarily reflect the strategic thinking of The Global Eye Today’s about: Belarus-Russia-Europe; Europe-US-NATO; Iraq; Jama’a Nusrat...