NATO Continues to Strengthen Its Capabilities: Turning the Hague Summit into Concrete Action

The defense ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization recently met at their Brussels headquarters for their first meeting since the June summit in The Hague. While in June the member states agreed on an unprecedented increase in defense spending to five percent of gross domestic product by 2035, the October meeting showed how to put these commitments into practice. The main topics were anti-drone technology, the expansion of Operation Eastern Sentry, and continued support for Ukraine.