NATO’s 5% Defence Push & The New World Order; India Watching Closely

Over six months into Donald Trump’s return to power, NATO is changing—fast. At the summit that concluded last month in The Hague, allies agreed to raise defence spending to a historic 5% of GDP, with military aid to Ukraine now counting toward the tally.

But behind this show of unity lie deep questions: Is Trump reshaping NATO into a more capable alliance—or hollowing out its core values?

Are Europe’s security priorities now more about survival or sovereignty? And what does all this mean for India’s strategic calculus in a world where old alliances are being tested?

In this week’s Defence Mantra, we unpack all this, Editor-in-Chief with Nitin A Gokhale.