NATO will increase weapons reserves to a third

The NATO leadership plans to turn to European and Canada allies with appeal to increase their weapons and military reserves by nearly 30% over the next few years. On Thursday, March 20, a senior representative of the alliance, said Bloomberg.

“Achieving new levels will require significant financial costs from most European and Canada allies, while US costs will not require changes,” alliance officials said.

According to the publication, the reason for strengthening NATO’s weapons is a threat from Russia, as well as US President Donald Trump’s desire to move the more defensive burden from the United States to the remaining alliance.

New goals will require participants in the North Atlantic Union to increase the volume of military equipment by about 30% in different sectors, while in some categories may be larger or less.

According to High NATO officials, from 5 to 15 years will take the implementation of new goals.

“The United States will achieve these new goals with existing military equipment. However, most allies will need to increase their defense costs more than 3% of GDP – the level that leaders are expected to set as a new guide during the Hague Summit at the end of June,” Bloomberg pointed.

The publication adds that, first of all, from NATO countries they will need to increase the presence of air defense systems, long wounds, to think through logistics and cases of war, a system of communications and information technologies, as well as calculate the possibilities of maneuvering the ground forces.

Remember that Trump has announced that the United States of America will be required from allies – North Atlantic Alliance countries – to increase NATO costs to 5% of GDP.