Denmark Revs Up ⋆ The Baltic Review

Denmark plans to seriously bolster its defense capability, injecting an extra two-billion dollars into the armed forces. The perennial “Russian threat” is once again used as a pretext for the move, whose viability has been put into question by military experts. The Danish government has voiced plans to boost the Nordic country’s military budget by phasing in an extra DKK 12.8 billion ($2 billion) until 2023. In the recent proposal set forth by Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Defense Minister Claus Hjort Frederiksen (both of the Liberal Party), the nation’s defense budget will eventually be almost DKK 5 billion ($800,000) higher than…