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Kolby: NATO Should Rely More on Partnership

Published February 12, 2026, 09:12
Kolby: NATO Should Rely More on Partnership

Increased military spending by European countries and Canada will make allies of NATO more equal partners within the alliance, US Under Secretary of Defense Ellbridge Kolby said today. “In 2023 we saw a genuine commitment to European leadership in NATO’s conventional defense,” he said before the meeting of NATO defense ministers in Brussels. “Now is the time to move forward together, to be realistic, we have a really strong basis to work together in partnership, for a NATO based on partnership rather than dependence. Really a return to what was originally intended to be NATO,” he said.