| 来源类型 | Commentary |
| 规范类型 | 评论 |
| Bad Idea: Demanding Allies Spend Two Percent of GDP on Defense | |
| Todd Harrison; Seamus P. Daniels | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-12-21 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 概述 | It’s time we ditch the 2 percent (or any percent) of GDP metric for allied defense spending and focus on what really matters—capability$capacity$readiness$and interoperability. |
| 摘要 | For decades, the United States has lamented the fact that its allies around the world, from Europe to the Pacific, spend too little of their own resources on defense. NATO has long encouraged member states—both officially and unofficially—to spend a minimum of two percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) on defense—a standard that has been flagrantly disregarded. According to 2018 estimates , only five NATO members including the United States (3.50 percent) spend 2 percent of their GDP on defense, while major allies in Germany (1.24 percent) and France (1.81 percent) fall short of the threshold. And some of our main allies in the Pacific aren’t doing any better by this metric. Australia spends approximately 1.8 percent of its GDP on defense while Japanese defense expenditures fail to account for even one percent of its GDP according to 2017 estimates from the Military Balance 2018. Don’t get us wrong—our allies and partners should be doing much more to provide for their own security and contribute more equitably to collective defense efforts. But demanding that they spend an arbitrary ratio of defense to GDP is ridiculous and counterproductive. Defense spending as a percentage of GDP is a fundamentally flawed metric that does not fully capture the contribution of allies and does little to incentivize them to do what we actually want them to do—build a sizable, capable, and well-trained military that is designed and prepared to operate in coalitions when called upon. This piece was published as part of the Defense360 Read More Here Todd Harrison is director of the Aerospace Security Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.Seamus P. Daniels is a research associate and program manager for Defense Budget Analysis in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. |
| URL | https://www.csis.org/analysis/bad-idea-demanding-allies-spend-two-percent-gdp-defense |
| 来源智库 | Center for Strategic and International Studies (United States) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/329972 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Todd Harrison,Seamus P. Daniels. Bad Idea: Demanding Allies Spend Two Percent of GDP on Defense. 2018. |
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