Maxime Marquette
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EDITORIAL: The Baltic Drone Wall, What the West Truly Must Take From It
Let us say it plainly: the Baltic drone wall is not a symbolic gesture. It is a one-billion-euro answer to a threat that has…
REPORT: Five NATO Members Already Above the 3.5% GDP Defense Target
A Reuters analysis published July 7, 2026 delivers a ranking that deserves more attention than it has received: five NATO members already spend more…
DECODING: The Netherlands and the PURL Gamble, One Year Later, in Cold Light
One year after its launch, the PURL mechanism, the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List, deserves a reading stripped of the emotion that surrounded its birth.
ANALYSIS: NATO's Eastern Flank Drone Test Matters More Than It Looks
On March 27, 2026, the defense ministers of the three Baltic states signed a joint declaration that, on paper, might read as just another…
INVESTIGATION: Lithuania and the Context We Often Forget
When Reuters' figures on NATO defense spending circulated on July 7, 2026, one name came up more often than any other in the analyses:…
REPORT: The Ankara Summit and the 5%-of-GDP Milestone in Three Acts
On July 7 and 8, 2026, the leaders and defence ministers of NATO's member countries gathered in Ankara for a summit whose central stake,…
DECODING: The 5% of GDP Target, Between Rhetoric and Reality
Five percent. That is the figure every NATO leader now has in mind, the one the Alliance is aiming for across all its members…
ANALYSIS: The Baltic Drone Wall, a Billion Euros Against Doubt
One billion euros. That is the approximate sum that three small Baltic countries, together, have decided to commit to building what official documents now…
COLUMN: why Ankara matters more than it seems
Ankara does not usually top the list of cities discussed when Western commentators talk about NATO's most consequential summits, yet the July 2026 gathering…