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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk

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May 16, 2014

Polish Prime Minister Says NATO Needs Larger Presence in Eastern Allies

By Reuters

“If there is no readiness for a greater NATO presence in bordering countries of the European Union, it will mean NATO solidarity is only declarative,” [Polish Prime Minister Donald] Tusk said at a security conference in the Slovak capital.

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, May 15, 2014

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May 16, 2014

Secretary General Wants to Deepen NATO’s Ties with China

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

I would very much like to see what I will call a more structured dialogue between NATO and China.

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen with the Prime Ministers of the Visegrad countries

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May 15, 2014

Rasmussen: NATO Members Need to Increase Their Defense Budgets

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Twenty-five years ago, this part of Europe was the front-line in the fight for freedom. Barbed wire fences were cut. Walls came down. And freedom prevailed over force.

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Norwegian frigate HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen

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May 14, 2014

Norway Deploys Frigate 10,000 Miles Around Globe to Participate in RIMPAC Exercise

By Ine Eriksen Søreide, Ministry of Defense of Norway

Today – May 12th 2014 – is a day worth remembering. The Norwegian frigate KNM Fridtjof Nansen departs for the Pacific to participate in world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise RIMPAC.

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President Vladimir Putin with Russia's National Amateur Ice Hockey Team, May 10, 2014

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May 14, 2014

Why Aren’t Sanctions Stopping Putin?

By Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Daily Beast

The West is threatening another round of sanctions against Russia in an effort to deter meddling in the May 25 presidential elections in Ukraine.

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Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, May 14, 2014

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May 14, 2014

US Chief of Defense: NATO Needs to Revisit the Meaning of Deterrence

By Martin Dempsey, Defense One

Dempsey: My personal view is that this is a moment for NATO to decide what it intends to be in the future.

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NATO provides airlift support to African Union mission in Somalia, March 2010

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May 13, 2014

NATO and the African Union Increase Cooperation

By NATO

NATO and the African Union (AU) took a further step in advancing their cooperation, by signing on 8 May 2014 an agreement which formalizes the status of the NATO liaison office to the African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin

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May 13, 2014

Europeans Dither on Defense While Putin Laughs

By John Vinocur, Wall Street Journal

On one hand, there are European countries reasonably bemoaning years of declining American leadership and resolve.

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Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, April 10, 2014

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May 12, 2014

Czech Republic Wary of Permanently Hosting NATO Troops

By Robert Muller, Reuters

The Czech Republic does not favor hosting foreign NATO troops as part of the alliance’s plans to boost its eastern wing over the Ukraine crisis, its Defense minister said, in sharp contrast to some of its regional peers.

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Russian Presiden Vladimir Putin in Crimea, May 9, 2014

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May 12, 2014

The Battle in Ukraine Means Everything

By Timothy Snyder, New Republic

The territory of today’s Ukraine can very easily be placed within every major epoch of the European past.

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