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Ulrike Franke
@RikeFranke
Senior Fellow @ecfr. #Drone politics PhD @UniofOxford, previously @sciencespo. Writes about #Germany #Defence. Diskutiert bei @SicherheitsPod & Le Collimateur
Jul 10, 2018 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
It appears that not only the US president is unclear about what the NATO 2% GDP guideline actually means. So let me spell this out: (thread) In 2002, NATO agreed it would be a good idea if all NATO members spent about 2% of their national GDPs on their defence capabilities. Why 2%? No particular reason other that it sounded about right, and wasn't too far from actual spending while lower than Cold War spending.