Gordon Adams’ Op-ed in War on the Rocks on European Defense Spending
March 7, 2017

By Richard Sokolsky and Gordon Adams

The Trump administration has worked itself into a frenzy as to how much (or how little) our NATO allies spend on defense and whether the alliance is, as a result, a “good deal” for the United States. President Donald Trump himself (and former President Barack Obama) have hectored the Europeans about their free-riding—and Trump extravagantly claimed in his February 28 speech before Congress that his efforts were responsible for allied money “pouring in.”

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