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The highest-ranking officer in the Dutch military is the Chief of Defence, who is a four-star officer (NATO OF-9). After initial cooperation with the German army in 1995 through a Münster-located corps and increasing cross-linking during the following decades, all three Royal Netherlands Army combat brigades have fully integrated into German ...
In deploying more than 6,000 soldiers and 2,500 vehicles by land, air and sea from Central Europe to Norway, the Corps clearly illustrated the progress made during the NATO Response Force standby period and made a real contribution towards the continual development of the NATO Response Force Full Operational Capability.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Netherlands will increase defence spending by more than 10% next year, investing in new tanks, fighter jets, frigates and air defence systems in a push to strengthen its ...
The outgoing Dutch prime minister, Mark Rutte, has been formally selected as the next NATO secretary general, the military alliance announced Wednesday, coming at a pivotal time as it grapples ...
The cabinet of the Netherlands announced in 2016 that the Netherlands would contribute troops to the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence mission in Lithuania [75] to protect and reassure countries on NATO's eastern flank—Baltic countries and Poland in particular—of their security following increased political tensions sparked by the Russo ...
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) -The United States, Britain, France and Germany on Thursday all backed outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to succeed Jens Stoltenberg as the head of NATO, putting ...
NATO countries will need to discuss conditions for Ukraine to get a membership invitation and to join the alliance in response to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's "victory plan", Dutch Defence ...
Robert Peter Bauer (born 11 November 1962) is a Dutch military officer of the Royal Netherlands Navy who has been serving as Chair of the NATO Military Committee from 2021 to 2025. He previously served as the Chief of Defence ( Dutch : Commandant der Strijdkrachten ) from October 2017 to April 2021, [ 1 ] and as the Vice Chief of Defence of the ...