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Mar 4, 2010

NATO Plans Military Exercises Near Russian Border

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti:  NATO has announced it will hold military exercises involving fighter planes over the Baltic Sea this month, the first in a series of military drills to be held this year near the Russian border. The Baltic Region Training Event training mission will take place over the former Soviet republics of Lithuania, Latvia […]

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Mar 4, 2010

Sarkozy Falls for Russia

By the Times (London)

From the Times (London):  What a difference three years make. Campaigning for election in early 2007 Nicolas Sarkozy hammered Russia over human rights and promised to break with the cosy, uncritical relations that President Chirac pursued with Moscow. This week, President Sarkozy has thrown France into Russian arms, receiving President Medvedev on a state visit […]

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Mar 4, 2010

Helsinki NATO Event Seeks to Improve Cooperation in Crisis Management

By NATO

From NATO:  On 4 March, Finland and Sweden are hosting the seminar “NATO’s New Strategic Concept – Comprehensive Approach to Crisis Management” in Helsinki to discuss ways of enhancing cooperation between NATO and other international actors to improve crisis management. The conference is looking at the future challenges of crisis management and NATO’s role and […]

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Mar 3, 2010

Russia Holds Black Sea Drills “Under NATO’s Watchful Eye”

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: The Russian Black Sea Fleet practiced an amphibious landing of troops on the coast of Abkhazia as a nearby NATO vessel observed, a Russian Navy source said on Wednesday. He said the drills, involving a dozen warships, were conducted on February 27 in close cooperation with the coast guard forces of the […]

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Mar 3, 2010

Is Europe Shaping Policy by Playing Safe?

By the New York Times

From the New York Times:  The bloc has two million soldiers. Yet according to the European Defense Agency, the bloc can sustain only 110,000 soldiers in international missions. Over 70 percent of European land forces are unusable outside national territory because they have not modernized since the end of the Cold War. This failure to […]

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Mar 3, 2010

NATO Crisis Management Exercise Begins Tomorrow

By NATO

From NATO:  NATO will conduct its regular Crisis Management Exercise (CMX) between 4-10 March 2010. Exercise conduct was delayed from earlier in 2009 due to the Strasbourg-Kehl Summit. The exercise is designed to practice Alliance crisis management procedures at the strategic political level and will involve civilian and military staffs in national capitals, at NATO […]

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Mar 3, 2010

Lord Robertson: NATO on Edge of a Precipice

By the New Atlanticist

From the New Atlanticist: Lord George Robertson, NATO Secretary General from 1999 to 2004, says that the Alliance and its constituent members are "on the edge of a precipice looking down on a world of growing disorder and discontent and only blunt talk and straight language will save us from falling over." The decision two […]

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Mar 3, 2010

Rasmussen Comments on Changes to NATO’s Nuclear Weapons

By NATO

From NATO: There is a growing international discussion on the way forward when it comes to arms control, and in particular nuclear weapons. The goal of working towards a world free of nuclear weapons is one which we can all embrace. And I’ve scheduled a discussion at our next Foreign Ministers meeting in Tallinn on […]

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Mar 2, 2010

NATO Future in Question As Afghanistan Role Dwindles

By Time

From Time: [A] call for 3,200 additional NATO soldiers to help train the fledgling Afghan army was answered with commitments for only half that number. "Training and advising the security forces of other nations needs to become a key alliance mission," Gates said. "In Afghanistan, the alliance has struggled to field the trainers and mentors needed […]

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Mar 2, 2010

Partners in Decline

By  Foreign Policy

From Foreign Policy:  Perhaps the end of the Cold War was an opportune time to kill off NATO, but the Balkan crises of the 1990s and post-9/11 security challenges proved that the alliance was still needed. The same is true today. The alternative — to replace NATO with an ad hoc ABCD alliance (America, Britain, Canada, […]

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