Financial Times: Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, met Nato ambassadors in Brussels on Thursday to discuss European defence investments in the context of a review of US military deployments in Europe due to conclude in December. He told some European allies to move faster on buying critical conventional weapons systems that the US has long provided.
The US needed to see “major efforts to step up” from European allies and create “a Nato force model that’s going to put Europe in a lasting position where it’s going to be able to lead its own defence”, Colby told reporters after the meeting…