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The question for NATO: How much, and how, to spend on collective defence

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By Ajai Shukla
| Broadsword
It took a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 to push NATO countries into adopting, at the 2025 Hague Summit (above), a massive new defence spending target of 5 per cent of GDP by 2035 By Ajai Shukla Indian Express, July 5, 2026 https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/nato-summit-russia-trump-gdp-spending-collective-defence-10772531/ With Eastern Europe and West Asia in prolonged turmoil, leaders of the 32 member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)...
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Opinion The question for NATO: How much, and how, to spend on collective defence

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By Ajai Shukla
| The Indian Express Verified
Last fortnight, NATO outlined the broad themes that it expected to dominate discussions during the Ankara Summit. The first is a topic that has been contentious ever since NATO’s beginnings: Spending levels on defence by the alliance’s European members. At last year’s NATO summit in The Hague, NATO’s European members committed to investing 5 per cent of their respective Gross Domestic Products (GDPs) into defence. This commitment covers two categories of defence expenditure.
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Andhra Pradesh Is Poised to Emerge as a Strong Indian Defense Hub

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By Ajai Shukla
| Tribune Content Agency
On May 15, India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandra Babu Naidu laid the foundation stones for a range of strategic aerospace and defense projects in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
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