The Alliance significantly increases its military capacities because Russia, from its aggression in Ukraine in 2022, is considered a much greater threat than before.
Accurate figures on goals – overall or by countries – it is difficult to confirm because they are classified. But according to a high military official, the number of brigades that NATO members should provide in the future will increase to 120 to 130. It is as much as 50 percent more than the current goal of about 80 brigades. The source from the German government claims that the goal of the 130 brigade for the entire NATO.
In response to Reuters’ query, NATO said that the new goals are “ambitious”, but not specifically stated. “They are based on the strengths and resources we need for deterrent and defense, according to new defense plans,” said one NATO official, index.hr.
Germany is 2021. obliged to secure ten brigades for NATO until 2030. years. There are currently eight, and the ninth sets in Lithuania, with a plan to operate by 2027.
But the provision of additional 40,000 active soldiers will be a huge challenge. Bundeswehru still lacks about 20,000 soldiers in relation to 203,000 set up in 2018, show the data of the Ministry of Defense. Reuters announced last year that NATO took an additional 35 to 50 brigades to implement new defense plans and that Germany would have to learn their capacities of an anti-air defense.
The new goals, the sources state, do not yet include the possible withdrawal of US forces from Europe – an option concerning the European Allies because NATO’s defense relies strongly on American resources. Washington announced that he would talk about it with partners later this year. The Trump administration has already told Europeans that the United States could no longer be the main guarantor of European security.
During the Cold War, Germany had 500,000 soldiers and 800,000 spare power. Today, in addition to Poland, it bears the main burden of the main defense of the East Wing of the Alliance.
Member States have significantly increased defensive spending after Russian aggression in Ukraine, but Trump still searches for you to threaten that now will not defend those who do not spend enough. At the Hague summit in June, the Mark Rutte Secretary will try to convince the leaders to double the allocation goal with 2 to 5 percent of GDP, and 1.5 percent to the wider security.
Germany, in the historic turn, mitigated the constitutional limit of borrowing to increase defensive consumption and supported Rutte’s goal of 5 percent. The German Chief of the CARSTEN Breuer was ordered to be fully equipped, because NATO expects Russia to restore its military power enough to re-threaten the territory of the Alliance.
(Vijesti.ba)
