NATO is set to increase its air defenses significantly, pledging to invest 5% of GDP on defense and security by 2035, potentially amounting to over $1.4 trillion. The war in Ukraine has revealed the urgent need for enhanced capabilities, as Western nations have allowed their defenses to decline since the Cold War. The ongoing conflict has highlighted the inadequacy of air defense arsenals, which have been reduced in prior decades due to the lack of perceived threats after the Cold War era.
We see Russia's deadly terror from the skies over Ukraine every day, and we must be able to defend ourselves from such attacks.
The increase, based on current GDP size, could be worth more than $1.4 trillion.
During the Cold War, as tensions skyrocketed between NATO and the Soviet Union, Western countries maintained substantial defenses.
The US and the rest of NATO scaled back their ground-based defenses 'very substantially', Mark Cancian said.
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