Category: NATOSource

Former Air Force Chief: Russia’s Air Defenses Weak

By AP

From AP:  Russia is lagging 25 to 30 years behind the United States in developing prospective air defense weapons because of a meltdown of its defense industries, a former Russian air force chief said Thursday. Retired Gen. Anatoly Kornukov said Russia has only a reduced capability to protect itself from an enemy attack – a […]

Greek, Turkish PMs Meet, Discuss Defence Cuts

By Reuters

From Reuters: The prime ministers of longtime rivals Greece and Turkey met on Friday to ease tensions and discuss cuts in defence spending, a crucial step for Athens as it struggles with a debt crisis that is shaking the euro. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Athens with 10 ministers and about 80 businessmen to […]

New Compromise May Prevent Total Dutch Withdrawal from Afghanistan

By DutchNews.nl

From DutchNews.nl: The Labour party is prepared to talk about sending Dutch police officers to Afghanistan to help train local forces, as long as it is clear this is not a military mission, Labour leader Job Cohen told KRO tv. The trainers can operate in areas where security is already tight but if necessary, Dutch […]

Gen. Abrial on Challenges to NATO Ballistic Missile Defense

By the Army Times

From the Army Times: The issue of information-sharing is even more important when deciding how to handle ballistic missile defense, [NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation Gen. Stéphane] Abrial said. “For BMD, this will be probably more difficult than in other domains,” he noted. “This notion is still contentious — some nations are very willing, […]

Romania and US Finish Round of Preliminary “Technical Talks” on Missile Defense

By Xinhua

From Xinhua: A round of Romanian-US technical talks has taken place in Bucharest on Romania’s inclusion in the US missile defense system in Europe, the Romanian Foreign Ministry said in a press release Wednesday. The agenda of the talks on Tuesday included an exchange of views on technical and judicial aspects of the missile defense […]

New British Government Sets Up “US-style National Security Council”

By AFP

From AFP:  Britain’s new foreign minister said Wednesday that Afghanistan would be his top priority, ahead of the first meeting of the new coalition government’s US-style National Security Council (NSC). … One of Cameron’s first tasks since taking office was to set up a National Security Council to coordinate the work of the foreign, defence, […]

SACEUR Promotes NATO Partnership with Finland

By Allied Command Operations

NATO Report Concludes Estonian Spy “Most Damaging in Alliance History”

By Spiegel

From Spiegel:  For years, from his senior position in Estonia’s Defense Ministry, Herman Simm leaked highly sensitive NATO intelligence and the names of Western spies to Russia’s foreign intelligence service. In a classified damage analysis, NATO concludes that the former KGB colonel was one of the "most damaging" spies in the history of the alliance.

Kommersant: Russian Security Service Officers May Return to Crimea

By RIA Novosti

Medvedev: “Turkey and Russia are strategic partners not only in words but in deeds”

By AFP