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With a Little Help from My Friends: How Sweden is Balancing its Security in the Baltics
September 21, 2017

Sweden is currently conducting its largest military exercises in over twenty years. Almost 20,000 Swedish troops are participating in Aurora17, which will run until September 29. They are joined by military units from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Lithuania, Norway, and the United States, which has sent more than 1,000 troops, including a Patriot missile battery, helicopters, and a National...
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Braw in Defense One: Russia Has 100K Troops On the Move. Here’s Why NATO Can’t Do the Same
September 5, 2017

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New Ambassador: US Remains United Behind NATO
September 1, 2017

I was nominated as United States ambassador to NATO by President Trump in late June.
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Kroenig in Defence 24: NATO Should Recognize the Russian Missile Threat to Europe
August 30, 2017

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European Bureaucracy, Not Russia’s Military Exercises, Seen as a Bigger Challenge
August 30, 2017

Top US military commander in Europe, Army Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, calls for a ‘military Schengen zone’
As Zapad 2017 looms, the top US military commander worries more about Europe’s sluggish bureaucracy than Russia’s snap military exercises.

One word is dominating transatlantic security and defense discussions heading into September: Zapad....
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NATO’s Cyber Domain Concept Shows Increased Maturity in Understanding of Cyber Threats
August 21, 2017

Recently, there have been a number of articles that explore the important and ongoing debate about the capabilities and policies NATO needs in order to deter and defend against the ever-looming cyber threats.

While many such articles accurately highlight the urgent need for NATO and its member states to develop a more proactive approach to countering cyber threats, it is worth...
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NATO Needs an Offensive Cybersecurity Policy
August 8, 2017

Modern-day warfare is as much about cyberattacks and the protection of communication and information systems as it is about kinetic military action. In 2016, NATO’s institutional networks experienced on average 500 cyberattacks a month—an increase of roughly 60 percent from the...
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Braw in The National Interest - Mini-Battlegroups: How NATO Can Take On the Threats of the Future
July 23, 2017

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Ullman in UPI - The United States, NATO and Russia: War Games Two Can Play
July 17, 2017

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You Can’t Call the Cavalry on Two Percent
July 10, 2017

Ein kleines Gedankenexperiment on the consequences of spending targets
Back in September 2014, I wrote in this column about whether percentages of gross domestic product (GDP) were a useful metric for military contributions across alliances. Back then,
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