Our operational contribution to NATO is strong. Our commitment of providing good personnel to what the alliance does has been strong, but we have fallen well short of our alliance commitments toward burden sharing, expressed as a share of our economy that we're devoting to military spending.
For years, we have been well short of the target of 2% of GDP overall going to the military [Technical difficulty—Editor] Now, more than ever, our allies, as well as adversaries, are taking note of those shortfalls.