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At their first summit in the Netherlands, NATO's 32 allies committed to spend 5% of GDP a year on defence and security by 2035, at least 3.5% of it on core defence, and reaffirmed their 'ironclad' Article 5 commitment.

Russia and Belarus held their first Zapad joint strategic exercise since the invasion of Ukraine, which Putin said involved 100,000 troops at 41 ranges and included practice with nuclear weapons and the Oreshnik missile, as Poland shut its border with Belarus.

NATO's 36th summit, in Türkiye's presidential complex, reported European and Canadian core defence investment up by more than $139 billion in 2025, announced more than $50 billion of new procurement and pledged EUR 70 billion in military aid for Ukraine in 2026.

On 18 September 2026 Lockheed Martin presented Germany's first F-35A Lightning II to the German government at its Fort Worth production facility.

AWS became the first cloud provider approved to handle NATO RESTRICTED information for every member nation, after Spain's National Cryptographic Centre assessed it against NATO's D32 cloud directive. Allies can now run NR workloads in any AWS Region located in a NATO country.

President Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen signed a pact at UN Headquarters letting the US add defense areas at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig and expand Pituffik Space Base. It bars non-NATO states from military installations in Greenland and has no end date.

The Munich Security Conference, the annual gathering of heads of government, defence and foreign ministers at Munich's Hotel Bayerischer Hof, returns for its 2027 edition from 12 to 14 February.

Finns elect the 200 members of the Eduskunta on 18 April 2027, the first parliamentary election since Finland joined NATO in 2023.

NATO leaders agreed at The Hague that Albania will host the alliance's 37th summit in Tirana, its first since joining in 2009; the date is still to be set, with Albania's defence minister pointing to 2027 or early 2028.