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Rethink and Replace Two Percent
This conversation was recorded on October 27th, 2020.
In today’s fun and educative episode, freelance journalist in Brussels Teri Schultz had a discussion with her guests Derek Chollet, Steven Keil and Chris Skaluba, about their recommendation that NATO rethink and replace its 2% spending guideline. You will learn what this is, reasons to rethink and replace it and how it’s measured, all in this episode. That’s why this is a must watch if you want to learn about this and much more.
In this episode, we learn:
- The 2% pledge that was made at the Wales NATO Summit of 2014 that, countries should start to someday spend 2% of their GDP on their own militaries.
- Why it's time to drop the 2%, why it hasn't worked and its shortcomings and also the way forward suggested.
- Reasons why countries spending 2% of their GDP on militaries was an imperfect metrics to use and what responsible Alliance partnership looks like.
- Also that the 2% is not the only metric by which a country's contribution is measured
- How the US measures its defense spending versus how Germany measures its own defense spending and how it looks at what it needs to defend.
- About the imperfections that arose due to the metrics that the conference came up with in 2014 and how it brought up the spending.
- That the 2% is measurement by inputs, but it’s recommended that it should be measured by inputs and outputs and why.
- If adding some of the costs such as cyber spending and saying that that should be part of the 2% would work so as to expand the definition of what could be considered a contribution to 2%.
- The most important of the recommendations on the 2% pledge issue.
About:
Derek Chollet: Executive Vice President at German Marshall Fund of the United States
https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-chollet-a7155b1b4/
Christopher Skaluba: Director, Transatlantic Security Initiative, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-skaluba-63630051/
Steven Keil: Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of United States
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-keil-1755b33/
Show Resources
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/
https://www.nato.int/
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By NATOThis conversation was recorded on October 27th, 2020.
In today’s fun and educative episode, freelance journalist in Brussels Teri Schultz had a discussion with her guests Derek Chollet, Steven Keil and Chris Skaluba, about their recommendation that NATO rethink and replace its 2% spending guideline. You will learn what this is, reasons to rethink and replace it and how it’s measured, all in this episode. That’s why this is a must watch if you want to learn about this and much more.
In this episode, we learn:
- The 2% pledge that was made at the Wales NATO Summit of 2014 that, countries should start to someday spend 2% of their GDP on their own militaries.
- Why it's time to drop the 2%, why it hasn't worked and its shortcomings and also the way forward suggested.
- Reasons why countries spending 2% of their GDP on militaries was an imperfect metrics to use and what responsible Alliance partnership looks like.
- Also that the 2% is not the only metric by which a country's contribution is measured
- How the US measures its defense spending versus how Germany measures its own defense spending and how it looks at what it needs to defend.
- About the imperfections that arose due to the metrics that the conference came up with in 2014 and how it brought up the spending.
- That the 2% is measurement by inputs, but it’s recommended that it should be measured by inputs and outputs and why.
- If adding some of the costs such as cyber spending and saying that that should be part of the 2% would work so as to expand the definition of what could be considered a contribution to 2%.
- The most important of the recommendations on the 2% pledge issue.
About:
Derek Chollet: Executive Vice President at German Marshall Fund of the United States
https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-chollet-a7155b1b4/
Christopher Skaluba: Director, Transatlantic Security Initiative, Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Atlantic Council
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-skaluba-63630051/
Steven Keil: Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of United States
https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-keil-1755b33/
Show Resources
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/
https://www.nato.int/