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Ground based missile defense test, Jan. 26, 2013

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Sep 13, 2013

US Names Five Possible East Coast Missile Defense Sites

By Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters

The Pentagon announced five possible missile defense sites in the eastern United States on Thursday, but said it was far from any decision to proceed

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Assistant Secretary of State for European/Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland

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Sep 13, 2013

Victoria Nuland Confirmed as Top US Diplomat for Europe

By Donna Cassata/AP and State Department

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Victoria Nuland, President Barack Obama’s choice as chief U.S. envoy for Europe

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin

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Sep 12, 2013

A Plea for Caution From Russia

By Vladimir Putin, New York Times

No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage.

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Quadrilateral consultations between Britain and Poland, Sept. 19, 2012

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Sep 12, 2013

Britain and Poland: Europeans Need to Strengthen Their Defense Capabilities

By William Hague, Philip Hammond, Radoslaw Sikorski, and Tomasz Siemoniak

Europe is facing a number of complex and inter-connected challenges.

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NATO AWACS E-3A Sentinel

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Sep 12, 2013

NATO AWACS Arrives in Seattle for Major Upgrade

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A NATO Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft arrives at Boeing Field in Seattle on Aug. 1, 2013, in preparation for a flight-deck and avionics upgrade.

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Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany

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Sep 12, 2013

Germany is a Vegetarian in a World Full of Carnivores

By Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

While the US, Britain and France are agonising about intervention in Syria, there is no agonising in Germany. A large majority of the electorate wants to stay out of the conflict – and all of the big political parties agree.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Barack Obama, June 22, 2012

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Sep 11, 2013

Obama Administration Debated Trading Missile Defense and NATO Enlargement for Russia to Cut Support to Assad

By Adam Entous, Greg White, and Peter Nicholas, Wall Street Journal

President Barack Obama’s 15 seconds of face time with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, while American and Russian warships patrolled the eastern Mediterranean, spoke to a deep chill that has created one of the biggest complications to the U.S.’s plan to strike Syria.

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

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Sep 11, 2013

Finland, Sweden Mull NATO Option

By Gerard O'Dwyer, Defense News

Finland’s Armed Forces’ commander in chief, President Sauli Niinistö, has entered the debate over whether the Nordic nation should join NATO as a long-term solution to meeting its future defense needs.

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Ed Miliband at Labour Party conference, September 2010

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Sep 10, 2013

A Much Less Special Relationship

By Roger Cohen, New York Times

Britain’s decision not to stand with the United States, its closest ally, in possible military action to punish the Syrian regime for a deadly chemical weapons attack marks a watershed moment

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Final ceremony at Campbell Barracks in Heidelberg, Sept. 6, 2013

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Sep 10, 2013

Closing Ceremony for EUCOM’s Historic Campbell Barracks

By Alison Smale, New York Times

For Germans and Americans who had long imagined a dramatic coda to the cold war, it came instead in a few solemn, quiet moments.

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