India, June 26 -- NATO leaders have pledged to increase the annual defense spending of their countries, ultimately up to 5 percent of their gross domestic product.
During a press briefing at the end of the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, U.S. President Donald Trump emphasized the need for all member states to share the financial burden of European defense spending.
"It's vital that this additional money be spent on very serious military hardware, not bureaucracy, and hopefully that hardware is going to be made in America because we have the best hardware in the world," Trump said, noting the successful air defense of the United States' Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar against Iranian missile attack Monday.
Trump also mentioned the war i...