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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…
REPORT: Germany withdraws its Eurofighters from Poland, the questions few are asking
Germany's withdrawal of its Eurofighter jets from Poland, reported by Euronews on March 24, 2026, passed through much of Western coverage as a routine…
DECODING: the Baltic drone wall and the balance of power underway
A joint statement from the Baltic states' defense ministries, issued March 27, 2026, called explicitly for exceeding the 5% GDP defense spending threshold, a…
ANALYSIS: PURL, one week later, the mechanism's numbers so far
One week after NATO published its updated figures on the PURL mechanism, the numbers are worth reading slowly rather than skimming as a headline.
OP-ED/NOTE: Revisiting Lithuania, what the figures confirm
Five point thirty-three percent of GDP: that is the figure Lithuania posts for its defense spending in 2026, according to Reuters, the highest of…
FACT CHECK: The Ankara summit and the 5%-of-GDP target, the forgotten context
The NATO summit held in Ankara on July 7 and 8, 2026 confirmed the target of 5% of GDP in defense spending by 2035,…