2021 Defense Spending: 1.95% 2024 Defense Spending: 1.81% Croatia joined NATO along with Albania in 2009. With a population of just four million, Croatia is one of the less populous members of NATO.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO/OTAN) was formed on April 4, 1949 in the wake of World War II and the beginning of the Cold War. Twelve countries signed onto the treaty, also known as ...

In addition to the United States and Canada, the countries that became part of NATO in 1949 were Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal.

The president has discussed possibly favoring members of the alliance that spend a set percentage of their GDP on defense, ...

others part of NATO, and so on and so forth. But should all Nordic countries join the same military alliance, it would "facilitate deeper cooperation in security and defense within their most ...

Leaders of NATO countries are meeting in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, starting on Tuesday for an annual summit that is set to be dominated by the response to the war in Ukraine. Bogdan ...

The number of NATO nations ... Up to June 2021, the alliance estimated that 10 nations were spending 2% or more of their GDP on defense. But latest estimates show now only eight countries are ...