While NATO allies agreed to allocate 2 percent ... The aircraft was adorned with black, yellow, and red paint to honor the Belgian national flag. Previously, Danish and Polish F-35s similarly ...

"Because the needs of collective defence are much higher than the needs of expeditionary operations," said a senior NATO official.

He was NATO’s Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak, 62. To much of the outside world, Spaak’s name has long seemed to be synonymous with Belgium itself. During the war and in the reconstruction ...