Category: NATOSource

Boeing conducts first flight test of cyber missile

By Boeing

France and transatlantic relations under the Hollande government

By Nicholas Dungan, Atlantic Council

From Nicholas Dungan, Atlantic Council:  On the global stage, France under Hollande will revert to a more traditional Gaullist posture, with the goal of indépendance nationale.

Concerned about potential terrorist attacks, Russia boosts security at missile launch sites

By RIA Novosti

Kommersant: Plane intercepted by Turkey was carrying 12 crates of parts for Syrian missile defense

By AFP

From AFP:  Russia is in contact with Turkey to recover a cargo confiscated by Ankara from a Moscow-Damascus passenger plane but so far no progress has been made, a senior foreign ministry official said Wednesday.

Erdogan: EU will lose Turkey if it hasn’t joined by 2023

By Orhan Coskun, Reuters

From Orhan Coskun, Reuters:  The European Union will lose Turkey if it doesn’t grant it membership by 2023, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.

Clinton to Bosnia: ‘We want to see you in NATO’

By Hillary Rodham Clinton, Department of State

From Hillary Rodham Clinton, Department of State:  The United States shares with the European Union a vision of a peaceful, stable, prosperous Bosnia-Herzegovina that is fully integrated into the Euro-Atlantic institutions.

Report on NATO’s Libya op reveals Denmark ‘bought munitions from Israel to bomb an Arab-world country’

By Gerard O'Dwyer, Defense News

From Gerard O’Dwyer, Defense News:  The accidental release of a Danish Defense Forces’ (DDF) report critical of NATO’s command structures and inability to direct bombing missions in Libya in 2011 has provoked political controversy, after it emerged the Danish Air Force bought munitions from Israel.

General Tom Lawson takes command of Canadian Forces

By Steven Chase, Globe & Mail