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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…
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…
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,…
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…