Category: NATOSource

The Age of Gloom? Implications for Key NATO Armies

By Ben Barry, RUSI

From Ben Barry, RUSI:  [W]hilst the other two services can attack enemy land forces, only armies can defeat them.

Deputy Secretary General: NATO’s Burden Sharing Problem can no Longer be ‘Swept Under the Carpet’

By Alexander Vershbow, NATO

From Alexander Vershbow, NATO:  Our world today is very different from the one in which NATO was founded, well over six decades ago.

Challenges Facing NATO and the Transatlantic Community Post-2014

By Alexander Vershbow, NATO

From Alexander Vershbow, NATO:  2014 represents a key date for NATO because it is the year when we will end our combat mission in Afghanistan.

NATO’s Multinational Command in the US Celebrates 10th Anniversary

By Dianna Cahn, Virginian-Pilot

From Dianna Cahn, Virginian-Pilot:  Today, [Gen. Jean-Paul] Paloméros sees global threats through the reverse lens – as leader of the international command that brings the 28 NATO nations together and ensures that they are prepared to respond rapidly to any future crisis.

Frattini: Need to Improve Burden Sharing Between Europe and the US

By Franco Frattini, Diario Italiano

From Franco Frattini, Diario Italiano:  [I]t is clear that financial burden for capabilities should be shared reasonably in the near future between European and American allies.

New Strategic Triad for the US

By James Stavridis, Foreign Policy

From James Stavridis, Foreign Policy:  As we sail more deeply into the turbulent 21st century, however, there is another triad that bears considering that will be a critical part of U.S. security in the decades to come.

US Secretly Providing Heavy Weapons Training for Syrian Rebels

By David S. Cloud and Raja Abdulrahim, Los Angeles Times

NATO and Russian Naval Commanders Meet in the Gulf of Aden

By NATO

From NATO:  Commodore Henning Amundsen, who currently commands NATO’s counter-piracy effort, Operation Ocean Shield, welcomed Captain first rank Ivan Kovalyov, Commander of the Russian Federation Baltic Fleet Task Group, on board the NATO flagship HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen.

US Should Support Kosovo Joining NATO

By the Editors of the Washington Post

From the Editors of the Washington Post:  Hashim Thaci, onetime leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army and now the country’s prime minister, was in Washington last week to talk about an accord he reached with Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic to normalize the two countries’ relations.