{"id":101205,"date":"2018-07-10T21:19:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T21:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/07\/10\/trumps-attacks-on-nato-raise-questions-about-its-future\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:54:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:54:20","slug":"trumps-attacks-on-nato-raise-questions-about-its-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/07\/10\/trumps-attacks-on-nato-raise-questions-about-its-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s attacks on NATO raise questions about its future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/nato-priorities\/2018\/07\/09\/trump-rips-nato-ahead-of-summit\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">repeated tongue lashings of NATO allies<\/a> and his friendly overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin are stirring questions at home and abroad about Trump\u2019s commitment to an Atlantic alliance that has been a pillar of U.S. security policy for more than half a century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Might a reordering, or even a reduction, of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/07\/05\/trumps-nato-summit-focus-wont-include-withdrawing-troops-from-europe\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. forces in Europe<\/a> be in the cards? Clues may come when Trump gathers Wednesday with NATO leaders in Brussels. The official agenda includes a plan for increasing the number of land, air and sea forces capable of reacting quickly in a European crisis, but overshadowing it are tensions generated by Trump\u2019s view that the Europeans are slackers leaning unfairly on the U.S. military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the risk of deepening the rift with traditional allies, Trump will then hold a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/07\/08\/off-to-europe-trump-to-meet-worried-nato-heads-then-putin\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">summit in Finland with Putin<\/a>. On his departure from Washington on Tuesday, the president remarked that he \u201ccan\u2019t say right now\u201d if Putin is a friend or foe, but he predicted that his first summit with the Russian leader \u201cmay be the easiest\u201d of all his meetings in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/07\/03\/nato-allies-defend-military-spending-amid-trump-criticism\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/42967179692_41442299e0_k.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">NATO allies defend military spending amid Trump criticism<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">NATO allies are pushing back against U.S. criticism that they are not spending enough on defense, as President Donald Trump ratchets up pressure ahead of a summit next week.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such comments have stirred unease not just in Europe, but in Washington. A bipartisan resolution, set to be endorsed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday, pointedly voices support for NATO as strategically important for the collective security of the trans-Atlantic region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAlthough the Atlantic alliance has weathered many crises over its lifetime, I now am concerned that the alliance will not survive Donald Trump,\u201d said Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, who served as senior director for European affairs on the National Security Council during President Barack Obama\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBecause he isn\u2019t arguing with allies about policy. He\u2019s questioning the fundamental value of NATO to the United States. This antagonistic approach is generating an unprecedented debate in Europe and in Canada about whether the United States should be treated as friend or foe,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"760\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18191427741649.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18191427741649.jpg.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18191427741649.jpg.jpg?resize=300,223 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18191427741649.jpg.jpg?resize=768,570 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump board Air Force One, Tuesday, July 10, 2018, at Andrew Air Force Base, Md. Trump is traveling on a weeklong trip to Europe on a four-nation tour, with stops in Belgium, England, Scotland and Finland. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 prompted a partial drawdown of U.S. forces from Europe, but every administration since then has concluded that keeping a U.S. military presence there was important for wider U.S. security, political and economic interests, and as a sign of solidarity with Europe. NATO has been a key part of the long U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, for example, and it is expected to agree this week to take a bigger training role in Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump, who has also questioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2018\/04\/30\/report-john-kelly-talked-trump-out-of-withdrawing-us-troops-from-south-korea\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">the U.S. military presence in Asia<\/a>, is challenging those assumptions. That has been most plain in his antagonistic approach to Germany, the main host of U.S. forces in Europe. He has criticized the Germans for not spending enough on their own defense and has castigated the country for what he calls an overly liberal immigration policy. He also has placed Germany at the center of his complaints about a U.S.-European trade imbalance.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2018\/06\/21\/why-the-head-of-nato-says-theres-no-guarantee-that-the-trans-atlantic-alliance-will-survive\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18172394899011.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Why the head of NATO says there\u2019s \u2018no guarantee\u2019 that the trans-Atlantic alliance will survive<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The bonds between Europe and North America are under strain and there\u2019s no guarantee the trans-Atlantic partnership will survive, the head of NATO warned Thursday.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Derek Chollet, executive vice president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a think tank, says there is a clear connection between Trump\u2019s criticism of German defense spending and reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2018\/07\/02\/pentagon-reportedly-assessing-cost-of-withdrawing-troops-from-germany\/\" title=\"\" class=\"\" target=\"_blank\">the Pentagon has undertaken a review of the cost of keeping troops in Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou cannot read this any other way\u201d than looking at whether a U.S. troop reduction \u201cis a feasible option for punishing them for their apparent lack of will,\u201d said Chollet, who was the Pentagon\u2019s assistant secretary for international security affairs during Obama\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He questions whether Trump fully understands the global significance of the U.S. military presence in Germany, including its hosting of the headquarters of U.S. Africa Command, which leads U.S. counterterrorism efforts in North Africa. Stuttgart also is headquarters for U.S. European Command. Among many other facilities, Germany hosts a U.S. military hospital at Landstuhl, the largest American hospital outside the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, NATO has proposed creating a new command in Germany to improve the way the alliance would move troops and equipment in a military crisis. Kay Bailey Hutchison, the U.S. ambassador to NATO, told reporters this plan will be approved at the Brussels summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notwithstanding Trump\u2019s grumbles about America shouldering the defense burden of Europe, his administration plans to boost spending to support it.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2018\/03\/10\/how-much-do-nato-member-nations-spend-on-defense\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AQCNP32ZWNAN5NB2MI5BU3DFDI.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">How much do NATO member nations spend on defense?<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">President Trump has long sought to get NATO allies to spend at least 2 percent of their GDP on defense expenditures.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the aftermath of Russia\u2019s annexation of the Crimea region of Ukraine in 2014 and its subsequent military incursion into eastern Ukraine, the Pentagon ramped up joint exercises in eastern and central Europe and spent billions on what it calls the European Deterrence Initiative aimed at Russia. After spending $3.4 billion on that initiative last year, the Trump administration has proposed boosting it to $6.5 billion in the 2019 budget year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s Pentagon chief Jim Mattis is a former NATO commander and a leading advocate for sustaining the alliance, although he also has been pressuring allies to spend more on defense. Some of Mattis\u2019 predecessors were even stronger in their criticisms. Robert Gates, for example, said in Brussels in 2011 that European penny-pinching and distaste for front-line combat in Afghanistan was putting the future of the alliance at risk. Gates said NATO faced a \u201cdim if not dismal\u201d future, not least because of what he called a diminishing patience in Congress for spending on Europe\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump, however, has taken this a step further by asserting that the Europeans are freeloaders taking advantage of American generosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a new assessment of the NATO spending and burden-sharing issues, the Center for Strategic and International Studies called Trump\u2019s language \u201cuniquely divisive\u201d and said NATO members\u2019 contributions should be measured by more than simple budget numbers. The think tank was referring to the pledge at NATO\u2019s 2014 summit meeting that members would \u201caim to move toward\u201d spending at least 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense by 2024. By its count, only four of NATO\u2019s 29 member countries met the 2 percent goal in 2017. They were the U.S., Greece, Britain and Estonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report said a wider range of metrics should be used to measure an ally\u2019s contributions to collective defense. It cited as an example Denmark, which has not met the 2 percent goal in recent years but has made important contributions in other ways, including with troop deployments to Afghanistan and by sacrificing significant trade with Russia by complying with sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s repeated tongue lashings of NATO allies and his friendly overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin are stirring questions at home and abroad about Trump\u2019s commitment to an Atlantic alliance that has been a pillar of U.S. security policy for more than half a 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