The Netherlands Is Getting an Additional Armored Infantry Battalion and Many More Combat Drones

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Defense is investing 1.1 billion euros in combat power and defense on land. NATO has indicated that this is where the shortages lie.

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With an additional battalion of around a thousand soldiers, new combat vehicles, drones and medical support, Defence is taking its first serious growth step, which will help meet the additional 1.1 billion euros that was allocated in the spring.

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We have donated EVERYTHING to the recycling center after the Cold War and certainly since Rutte I. Tanks to Finland, frigates to Chile, planes to Peru, armored cars to Estonia, vehicles to Jordan, you name it, and every penny had to be turned over a hundred times, to the point where commandos had to shout 'BANG BANG' during exercises. The pot of money became increasingly empty (padum) and now it suddenly turns out that it was not so smart at all…