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Army’s 15 armored brigade combat teams are maintained at full readiness levels. These costs are prohibitively high, which is why only five of the U.S. When combined together into an armored brigade combat team, the 4,700 soldiers, 87 M-1 main battle tanks, and hundreds of other armored fighting vehicles costs a staggering $2.6 billion per year to operate and maintain in a peacetime environment combat operations and/or realistic training deployments increase that cost by at least another billion dollars. The cost of refurbishing an M-1 tank to the new M-1A2 standard needed to fight and survive on the modern battlefield is between $8-10 million. The M-1 Abrams main battle tank, which entered service in 1980, cost $4.3 million each. In 1980, the annual cost of maintaining an American soldier hovered around $30,000 today that cost is $170,000 and growing. By any standard, blood and steel, circa 2017, is prohibitively expensive. For anyone acquainted with the reality of war, however, these numbers translate into blood and steel. From Donald Trump’s transactional world view, when it comes to collective defense, you have to pay to play Europe was in arrears, and the president was not about to reward them for that fact.įor a national defense neophyte like Donald Trump, military prowess is measured in dollars allocated to the task, something that can be measured on a spreadsheet for accountants to pore over. While he mentioned the terror attack of 9/11, Donald Trump did not raise the issue of Article 5, even indirectly. “If all NATO members had spent just 2 percent of their GDP on defense last year, we would have had another $119 billion for our collective defense and for the financing of additional NATO reserves.” “Twenty-three of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they should be paying and what they’re supposed to be paying for their defense,” Trump scolded the assembled leaders of NATO. Instead, America’s NATO allies where chastised for their collective failure to comply with a target level of defense spending equivalent to two percent of each member’s gross national product. It was widely expected that President Trump would give remarks appropriate to the occasion, praising the alliance and reinforcing its unifying principle of collective security. The memorial commemorated the terror attack of 9/11 and NATO’s response, manifesting the foundational premise underpinning NATO, set forth in Article 5 of the NATO Charter, that an attack against one member was an attack against all. It ended with Trump dedicating a memorial celebrating the transatlantic bonds between Europe and the United States at the new headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Brussels.
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