Category: NATOSource

NATO Secretary General receives prestigious US Atlantic Council award

By NATO

From NATO:  Anders Fogh Rasmussen received a Distinguished International Leadership Award from the Atlantic Council of the United States for his service both as NATO Secretary General and as Prime Minister of Denmark

Hammond: NATO split on whether main threat coming from Russia or MENA?

By Philip Hammond, E-Ring

From Philip Hammond, E-Ring:  The further east you go, the more of the concern remains that we should be prepared for a — maybe not full-blown state-on-state conflict — but we need to be prepared to protect the borders of NATO

Britain: European defense budget too small, yet ‘vast amounts of it are wasted’

By Philip Hammond, E-Ring

From Philip Hammond, E-Ring:  It’s the NATO planning process and looking at the overall capability that European NATO needs to be able to field and making sure that in the next planning framework horizon we get the capabilities we need

Hillary Clinton: We cannot afford to let NATO ‘slide into military irrelevance’

By Hillary Rodham Clinton, Atlantic Council

From Hillary Rodham Clinton, Atlantic Council:  [T]he Obama administration continues to update America’s ballistic missile defense systems to protect both Europe and the United States against threats from outside the continent.

Georgia’s Prime Minister: We will get NATO MAP in 2014

By Joshua Kucera, Bug Pit

NATO Secretary General: Striking a new transatlantic deal

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Canada should hear U.S. out on missile defense system

By the Editors of the Calgary Herald

From the Editors of the Calgary Herald:  The Pentagon announced its intention in March to place 14 new ground-based missile interceptors in Alaska by 2017

Europeans should encourage U.S. to offer Russia legal guarantees on missile defense

By Clara Marina O'Donnell, Real Clear World

From Clara Marina O’Donnell, Real Clear World:  [S]o far, the Obama administration has refused to give Russia legal guarantees. The US has made such commitments in the past.

Should the EU develop a joint European Strike Force?

By Olivier de France and Nick Witney, European Council on Foreign Relations

From Olivier de France and Nick Witney, European Council on Foreign Relations:  [T]he European Council needs to shake up the system by itself demanding that blueprints be produced for one or two major, exemplary, integrative projects.