Maybe even costing lives. that s just part of nato s current crisis. stla money problems. just two months tint year they already face a fiscal shortfall of hundreds of millions of euros. only four members have so far reached the self-set target of spending 2% of their gdp on the military. the u.s. speds the biggest percentage of the gdp among the western nations, almost 4%. for all that nato s european nations do spend, about $300 billion a year, the vast majority of their forces are defensive, really welfare state jobs in many cases and are certainly useless for conflicts like iraq and afghanistan. by nato s own admission, only 30% of nato s land forces can ever be deployed. thanks to the need for troop rotation and similar concerns, only about 10% of the soldiers can be fighting overseas at any given time. while the u.s. has half a