... explicit.
The same clear trend can be traced in the global arms trade. According to SIPRI, over last five years the US export of arms has increased by 17 percent and the US share of the global market has jumped from 34 to 42 percent. The statistic on NATO is also indicative—the Alliance share in providing arms to foreign countries in 2019–2023 has grown from 62 to 72 percent. A particularly steep growth of 47 percent in five years was demonstrated by France. Most of the forecasts suggest that the US and its allies will continue to enhance their positions ...
... Agency (DSCA) approved the sale of F-35A Lightning II multirole combat aircraft to Germany. This came as a climax of quite a protracted and a rather tragicomic story of Germany’s
Luftwaffe
purchasing a new carrier of nuclear weapons to carry out “NATO nuclear sharing.”
Alexander Yermakov:
Rifle Hanging on the Wall
The Legacy
Today’s NATO nuclear sharing is a legacy of the Cold War between the U.S. and the USSR, which has effectively evolved into a policy relic over the 30 years that followed....
... unrelated events.
Turkey’s armed forces are rather large and well-armed. The Turkish army is often claimed to be second largest in NATO after that of the United States; while this is true for overall numbers, it may not necessarily be so in terms of combat ... ... national military-industrial complex, increasingly striving to provide itself with domestically-produced weapons, including hi-tech arms. There remain major “gaps,” however, particularly in the most sophisticated and expensive areas, which is almost indecent ...
... the armed forces
with fighter aircraft (F-22 Raptors) and bombers (B-2 Spirit stealth bombers and B-52 Stratofortress bombers), which have been relocated from U.S. airbases to the United Kingdom.
REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/Pixstream
Vadim Trukhachev:
A New Arms Race in Eastern and Northern
Europe
However, a more objective analysis of U.S. and NATO military policy as a whole would refute the prevailing in Western media version that Washington and its allies are
orchestrating a re-militarization of Europe
.
To begin with, as we all know, NATO decisions on military planning are made by consensus,...
