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The head of Turkey's Undersecretariat for Defense Procuremen Murad Bayar

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Oct 15, 2013

Chinese Air Defenses in Turkey a ‘Virus’ for NATO

By Burak Bekdil, Hurriyet

Defense officials from NATO member states have described any potential Turkish effort to integrate China-made long-range air and anti-missile defense system into NATO’s overall air defense architecture as a “virus” within the allied system and a “possibly most futile effort.”

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Meeting of NATO Defense Ministers, October 14, 2010

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Oct 11, 2013

Should NATO’s Article 5 Only Protect Allies that Bear Fair Part of Defense Burden?

By Andrew Roberts, Hoover Institution

“Britannia’s 19 Ships Can’t Rule a Single Wave” was a recent headline in London’s Sunday Times.

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, October 10, 2013

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Oct 11, 2013

Rasmussen Confirms Georgia is Joining NATO Response Force in 2015

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Georgia, has offered to join the Response Force in the future, and been accepted.

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President of Finland Sauli Niinisto and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Nov. 14, 2012

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Oct 10, 2013

The Case for Finland to Join NATO

By Pauli Järvenpää, ICDS

[A]s far as the Finnish president is concerned, Finland now enjoys the best of all possible worlds: it is satisfied with the present level of cooperation with NATO

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, October 10, 2013

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Oct 10, 2013

Zeidan Kidnapping Highlights 5 Month Delay in NATO-Libya Security Agreement

By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes

The reported abduction of Libya’s prime minster early Thursday has exposed the shortcomings in the country’s security sector

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, October 10, 2013

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Oct 10, 2013

NATO Secretary General: ‘Something Needs to be Done’ to Help Libya

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

I can confirm that the Libyan authorities have requested NATO assistance to build or reform the security sector.

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, April 23, 2013

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Oct 10, 2013

NATO Chief Rebukes Karzai, Defends Afghan Progress

By AP and NATO

From AP:  NATO’s secretary-general has sharply rejected Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s view that the presence of international troops in his country caused much suffering but achieved few gains.

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Prime Minister of Libya Ali Zeidan

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Oct 10, 2013

Libyan Prime Minister Is Kidnapped, Then Freed

By David D. Kirkpatrick and Gerry Mullany

Libya’s prime minister, Ali Zeidan, was kidnapped from a hotel in the capital, Tripoli, on Thursday and briefly held in an apparent act of retaliation for his presumed consent to the capture of a suspected Qaeda leader by an American commando team.

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Obama and Kerry meet with Erdogan and Fidan, 2nd & 3rd from left.

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Oct 10, 2013

Turkey’s Spymaster Plots Own Course on Syria

By Adam Entous and Joe Parkinson, Wall Street Journal

“Hakan Fidan [Turkey’s powerful spymaster] is the face of the new Middle East,” says James Jeffrey, who recently served as U.S. ambassador in Turkey and Iraq.

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German Army Leopard II tank

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Oct 9, 2013

German Military Power in an Age of Austerity

By Patrick Keller, American Enterprise Institute

Since 1990, the Bundeswehr has been undergoing constant reform.

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