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Prime Minister David Cameron visiting British troops in Afghanistan

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Jan 16, 2014

UK Prime Minister Says Robert Gates ‘Wrong’ About British Defense

By Telegraph and BBC

From Raf Sanchez, Telegraph:  David Cameron has sharply rejected a claim by the former US defence secretary that the government’s military cuts will prevent Britain from being a “full partner” with America.

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Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates

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Jan 16, 2014

Defense Cuts Threaten US-UK Partnership, Says Robert Gates

By James Edgar, Telegraph

Defence cuts are limiting Britain’s capacity to be “full partner” with America, a former US defence secretary has said.

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Georgia hopes NATO will grant it a Membership Action Plan in 2014

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Jan 16, 2014

Georgia Sets Sights On NATO Membership Action Plan

By Liz Fuller, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Differences have emerged within the Georgian leadership over the country’s desire to expedite its accession to NATO.

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Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland

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Jan 16, 2014

State Department: Implications of the Crisis in Ukraine

By Victoria Nuland, Department of State

Why does the United States have an interest in how this turns out? Because these same principles and values are the cornerstone of all free democracies, and America supports them in every country on the planet.

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Libyan Recruits

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Jan 15, 2014

Two Thousand Libyan Troops to Receive Training in Italy

By Libya Herald

The 340 Libyan soldiers currently being trained in Italy are the first to benefit from a bilateral agreement that will see up to 2,000 troops trained in 2014.

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Canadian soldiers participating in NATO Exercise Cold Response 2012

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Jan 15, 2014

Between A Rock and a Cold Place? NATO and the Arctic

By Page Wilson

At a press conference marking the visit of the North Atlantic Council to Norway in May, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced that “at this present time, NATO has no intention of raising its presence and activities in the High North.”

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USS Connecticut in Arctic Ocean

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Jan 15, 2014

Arctic Passage Opens Challenges for US Military

By Julian E. Barnes, Wall Street Journal

The 40-year-old Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star returned to the Arctic Ocean this summer after seven years in semiretirement, charging into a thinning polar ice sheet that U.S. defense officials predict will give way to new commercial waterways and a resource-rich frontier by midcentury.

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NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow in Tel Aviv

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Jan 15, 2014

Turkey Reassured that NATO Missile Shield Not Designed for Israel

By Dan Williams, Reuters

Turkey has accepted assurances a planned NATO missile defense system in which it is playing a part is not designed to protect Israel as well, the alliance’s deputy secretary-general said on Wednesday.

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Italian Defense Minister Mario Mauro

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Jan 14, 2014

Libya Unrest Worries Italy

By AFP

Italy is seriously concerned over unrest in Libya and the government’s ability to rein in local militias, Defence Minister Mario Mauro said Monday during a visit to Washington.

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Romanian soldiers and US Marines training together

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Jan 14, 2014

US Will Keep Cutting Bases in Europe, Top General Says

By Gordon Lubold, Foreign Policy

The U.S. military will continue to close buildings and bases in Europe, the top American commander there told Foreign Policy.

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