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Norwegian Deputy Defense Chief Calls For Increased Military Investment By NATO Member Nations

Thursday, May 19th, 2016

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Norwegian Deputy Defense Chief Calls For Increased Military Investment By NATO Member Nations

Norway's first F-35A, called AM-1, is in production at the Lockheed Martin Fort Worth, Texas assembly plant. Photo: Lockheed Martin.

Facing Russian aggression on the alliance’s eastern flank and spurred by an infusion of cash and weapons by the U.S. military, individual NATO nations are eager to contribute to collective defense of Europe, the deputy defense chiefs of the United States and Norway said May 19.The United States and Norway have established a multi-layered defense partnership that involves not just the two countries’ militaries, but their defense and commercial industrial bases also, Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work said at the…

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