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Britain's nuclear deterrent remains "crucial" to NATO

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Sep 10, 2013

NATO: UK Nuclear Might ‘Crucial’

By Express

Britain must not take advantage of the winding down of operations in Afghanistan to trim spending on defence, the head of Nato has warned.

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, December 5, 2012

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Sep 10, 2013

NATO Secretary General: ‘We Need a Firm International Response to the Chemical Weapons Attack in Syria’

By BNS

European countries should invest more in their defence capacities to be able to defend principles of democracy around the globe, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Vilnius.

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NATO ships arrive at Batumi

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Sep 9, 2013

NATO Ships Visit Batumi, Georgia

By Allied Command Operations

Friday, 6 September 2013, three NATO ships assigned to Standing NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group TWO (SNMCMG2) arrived in Batumi for a scheduled visit to the Black Sea port.

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NATO Summit in Chicago

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Sep 9, 2013

The West is Accelerating its Strategic Decline

By François Heisbourg, Financial Times

[T]he west was inevitably going to lose some of its ability to set the global agenda and to conduct foreign military operations. This process has been accelerated by the west’s economic slowdown since 2007.

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LTC POL AF Paul does his F-16 walkaround inspection before flight in Exercise Brilliant Arrow

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Sep 9, 2013

NATO Concludes Air Training Exercise, Brilliant Arrow

By Allied Command Operations

One of the largest NATO air training events of the year, Exercise Brilliant Arrow, took place at Orland Airbase, in Norway from 25 Aug to 5 Sep 2013.

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, May 8, 2013

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Sep 9, 2013

Failure to Launch Military Strike Against Syria will be Taken as a Sign of Western Weakness, says NATO SecGen

By James Tapsfield, Independent

The head of Nato has warned that failure to launch military reprisals against Syria will be taken as a sign of Western “weakness”, as Barack Obama struggles to get congressional support for action.

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Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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Sep 9, 2013

Secretary General Opens NATO Energy Security Center of Excellence in Lithuania

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

It is a great honour to open this NATO Centre of Excellence on Energy Security. When we wrote our new Strategic Concept three years ago, we emphasised the importance of energy security.

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Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt

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Sep 9, 2013

Sweden Lashes Out at Russian ‘Economic Warfare’ in East Europe

By Justyna Pawlak and Adrian Croft, Reuters

Sweden accused Russia on Friday of waging “economic warfare” against former Soviet republics that have been considering closer trade relations with the European Union and said the EU needed a strategy to resist Moscow.

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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Sep 6, 2013

NATO Secretary General on Europe’s Defense Needs

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Excerpts from speech by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the Inter-parliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Vilnius.

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B-1 Bomber

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Sep 6, 2013

Pentagon Ordered to Expand Potential Targets in Syria, May Also Use Bombers

By New York Times and Wall Street Journal

From David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt, New York Times:  President Obama has directed the Pentagon to develop an expanded list of potential targets in Syria

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