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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…
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…
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,…
PORTRAIT: Decoding the 5%-of-GDP target in three acts
Five percent of GDP devoted to defense by 2035: that is the target NATO has set for itself, according to Forbes, and one the…
EDITORIAL: Five countries, what Western observers take from it
Five NATO countries now exceed 3.5% of their GDP in pure defense spending, according to a Reuters tally dated July 7, 2026.
INVESTIGATION: NATO's 5% of GDP target, a political bet through 2035
NATO has set an ambitious course: raising defense spending to 5% of GDP for all its members by 2035, according to Forbes on July…