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Home / NATO / On eve of summit, NATO secures big win
NATO, Europe and Eurasia

July 10, 2023

On eve of summit, NATO secures big win

Today, at some 355,000 troops, Turkey has the largest standing army in NATO after the United States – another source of leverage within the alliance, notes Rajan Menon, director of the Grand Strategy program at the Defense Priorities think tank in Washington. France and Germany have forces of roughly 200,000 each.

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