By JOE GOULD

09/03/2025 12:00 PM EDT

Dear reader,

Governments around the globe are rewriting defense budgets, trade rules and industrial strategy. The shifts are seismic.

NATO spending is projected to hit $1.6 trillion this year — the alliance’s most aggressive hike in generations. And for the first time, alliance members are no longer treating the 2 percent GDP target as a ceiling. Spending by E.U. member states spiked to €343 billion last year, and Brussels is already laying the groundwork for larger, longer-term investments.

Nations are realigning supply chains and rewriting procurement rules that will fuel the next era of transatlantic friction — and cooperation.

Global Security is POLITICO’s new weekly briefing on the policies, regulatory fights and industrial shifts shaping defense and security across continents. We’ll track how decisions about export controls on one continent ripple across others and how offsets to investment screening, energy security and artificial intelligence are reshaping the global security landscape.

This newsletter will supplement the U.S. and EU editions of Morning Defense, which will continue to provide critical insight on domestic defense policy, budgets and emerging tech.

Global Security will connect how what happens in Washington, Brussels and beyond links directly to what gets funded, what gets built and who benefits. Don’t miss it.

Thanks for reading,

Joe Gould

Author, Global Security

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/global-security/2025/09/03/welcome-to-global-security-00541470

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