Germany is deploying troops to another country on a long-term basis for the first time since World War II. It's putting thousands of soldiers in Lithuania, a NATO member that borders Russia.

BERLIN — Germany officially launched its first permanent foreign troop deployment since World War II on Tuesday — a 5,000-strong armored brigade in Lithuania — as Berlin moves to bolster NATO’s ...

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There are questions about Germany's ability to follow through on Merz's ambitious proposals, especially given its history of consistently falling short of NATO's 2% GDP defense spending target.

Germany's military weakness is due to chronic underinvestment. Germany hit NATO’s 2 percent of gross domestic product defense spending target in 2024 for the first time since 1991, according to World ...

NATO foreign ministers gathered, with Ukraine and defence spending key items on the agenda. Simultaneously, army chiefs were meeting in Kyiv in a less publicised, but similarly important, meeting.

Rubio says US remains committed to NATO despite Trump criticisms Rubio says allies will have more than a year or two to step up defence spending European security shaken by Trump's opening to ...