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Why Afghanistan Might Be NATO’s Last Fight -- David Francis, Fiscal Times
In Paris last month, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced that France plans to spend $251 billion on its military. This amount was not just for 2014; it was for the next five years, meaning that Paris only plans to spend about $50 billion on its armed forces each year, or about 1.3 percent of GDP, down from 1.9 percent this year.
As part of the reductions, France is cutting 34,000 troops from its ranks. Germany has also cut $10.7 billion out of its 2014 military budget, and recently announced that it would reduce the size of its military from 250,000 to 165,000, and ended conscription, a practice that had been around since the end of World War II.
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NATO ceased being militarily relevant in the late 90's.
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