{"id":23848,"date":"2026-10-13T07:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/13\/nato-commander-says-european-armies-face-manpower-shortages\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:45:16","slug":"nato-commander-says-european-armies-face-manpower-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/13\/nato-commander-says-european-armies-face-manpower-shortages\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Commander Says European Armies Face Manpower Shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexus Grynkewich, NATO&#8217;s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, has said that European armies are facing a shortage of personnel, a problem he said makes it difficult to rapidly strengthen their military capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Grynkewich said it is not possible to build a large army in a short period of time and that solving the problem would require changes to conscription laws. He added that some European countries have already begun the process of changing these laws.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come as NATO&#8217;s European members come under growing pressure to boost their defence capabilities and increase their contribution of personnel and military equipment to the alliance.<\/p>\n<p>NATO officials have previously also stressed the need to expand Europe&#8217;s military capacity and reduce the continent&#8217;s dependence on the United States&#8217; military capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NATO\u2019s top commander says European armies face manpower shortages, making it harder to rapidly strengthen their military power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}