How NATO Nations Need to Sell the 5 Percent Spending Hike to Their Own People - Breaking Defense

Taylor in Breaking Defense on how NATO allies should communicate defense spending hikes

On August 13, Transatlantic Security Initiative assistant director Kristen Taylor published an op-ed in Breaking Defense on how NATO allies should message defense spending increases to their publics.

How NATO nations need to sell the 5 percent spending hike to their own people - Breaking Defense

The Atlantic Council’s Kristen Taylor argues in this op ed that committing to defense spending is only half the battle.

New defense spending strengthens NATO

New defense spending strengthens NATO NATO nations are committed to revitalizing the alliance by spending 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defense. “NATO is now much better poised to project military, diplomatic and economic power,” says Secretary of State Marco Rubio in a recent op-ed, noting a stronger alliance deters future wars. NATO’s founding Washington Treaty states that member nations “will maintain and develop t…