{"id":6573,"date":"2018-03-30T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thediplomaticenvoy.com\/?p=6573"},"modified":"2018-04-12T19:34:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T23:34:22","slug":"u-s-pressure-and-mounting-security-concerns-push-nato-allies-to-increase-defense-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2018\/03\/30\/u-s-pressure-and-mounting-security-concerns-push-nato-allies-to-increase-defense-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Pressure and Mounting Security Concerns Push NATO Allies to Increase Defense Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Catherine Doolan<br \/>\n<\/b><b><i>Staff Writer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On March 15, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced in his annual report that European allies and Canada increased their defense spending by nearly 5 percent in 2017. NATO\u2019s 29 allies invested over $900 billion, with two-thirds of that total coming solely from the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/news_152805.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Atlantic Treaty Organization<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Secretary General Stoltenberg added that, \u201cAll NATO members have pledged to continue to increase defense spending in real terms. The majority have already put in place plans on how to meet the 2% guideline by 2024. And we expect others to follow.\u201d \u00a0The annual report highlighted how allies are specifically investing more in operations and missions, demonstrated by greater troop deployments.\u00a0The Secretary General attributed these increased contributions to the rise of ISIS, and other radical Islamic terrorism, as well as Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States contributed the greatest amount to NATO defense spending in 2017, at 68.7 percent of the total. This was 3.57 percent of the United States\u2019 overall economic output on defense in 2017, which according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/europe\/nato-defense-spending-goes-up-for-third-year-in-a-row\/2018\/03\/15\/725c5c42-26c8-11e8-a227-fd2b009466bc_story.html?utm_term=.6e5cc00c5ab7\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Washington Post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">illustrates the United States\u2019 continued role as a global superpower. \u00a0Despite increased defense spending by many NATO allies, Belgium cut 0.73 percent of its defense spending and Greece and Britain also decreased their spending while still maintaining their pledges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although, the annual report showed that Estonia, Greece, Poland, and Britain reached a 2 percent national economic output for annual defense spending, which was a benchmark agreed upon at a 2014 NATO summit. During his presidential campaign U.S. President, Donald Trump, criticized NATO and accused other world powers of taking advantage of American defense contributions to international security.<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-nato-spending\/european-allies-boost-defense-spending-most-still-miss-natos-u-s-backed-goal-idUSKCN1GR1UL\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reuters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> reported that President Trump called the 2 percent target a \u201cbare minimum.\u201d \u00a0Lithuania, Romania, and Latvia are expecting to reach the 2 percent target in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Defense spending by NATO allies has an impact on other global issues. President Trump recently announced U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs to protect American industries, which resulted in harsh retaliatory actions threatened by other nations against U.S. products. On March 22, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/03\/22\/trump-tariff-exemptions-479419\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Politico<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stated that, the Trump Administration announced it would exempt the European Union, Australia, Argentina, Brazil and South Korea from the steel and aluminum tariffs set to take effect on March 23. \u00a0However, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2018\/03\/10\/how-much-do-nato-member-nations-spend-on-defense\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Defense News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin announced, on March 9, that allies seeking exemptions from the tariffs may be asked to increase their defense contributions to NATO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The increase in NATO defense spending elucidates global fears of Russian modernization and expansion. Analysts believed that Bulgaria increased its defense spending because of fear of Russian dominance in the Black Sea region. Germany, who heads a group of NATO troops in the Baltic and Norway, a neighbor to Russia, also increased their defense spending from 2016, reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-nato-spending\/european-allies-boost-defense-spending-most-still-miss-natos-u-s-backed-goal-idUSKCN1GR1UL\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reuters<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The United States repeatedly told its European allies that NATO\u2019s power and influence cannot be declining as other nations such as China and Russia are rapidly increasing their budgets and defense spending.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Growing geopolitical instability has caused NATO allies to reconsider their defense spending. Russia may begin to test NATO\u2019s strength by putting pressure on certain regions of Europe.\u00a0Frequency of terrorist attacks in Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa will affect NATO allies\u2019 perspectives on defense spending. It is clear that the future of defense spending by NATO allies may deter or encourage these global patterns of behavior.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing geopolitical instability has caused NATO allies to reconsider their defense spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2925,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1349,1354,383],"tags":[399,1389,1390],"class_list":["post-6573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-march-2018","category-world","category-us","tag-nato","tag-defense-spending","tag-president-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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