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NATO’s Most Urgent Pledge Isn’t 2%-of-GDP—It’s Better Cyber Defense

The alliance has made strides toward its 2016 Cyber Defense Pledge. But more must be done, and urgently

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It’s no surprise that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and U.S. President Donald Trump spent much of their recent White House meeting talking about boosting alliance members’ spending; that’s been a focus of Trump’s since the campaign trail, and a target of NATO members since 2014. But it’s not the only, nor the most recent and urgent of the alliance’s pledges. That would be the two-year-old Cyber Defense Pledge.

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