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Norwegian F-16 intercepting Russian Tu-95 bomber

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Apr 10, 2015

Due to Russian Aggression, Nordic States Increasing Their Military Cooperation

By Sveinung Berg Bentzrød, Aftenposten

In an op-ed published in the Oslo daily Aftenposten, five Nordic ministers have signed the text outlining a very distinct military cooperation. An extended cooperation.

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Russia's Ambassador to NATO, Alexander Grushko

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Apr 10, 2015

NATO Reduces Size of Russian Delegation After Internal Reports of Espionage

By Michael R. Gordon, New York Times

For a year after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization cut back its cooperation with Russia as punishment for the country’s incursions into Ukraine, Russia’s NATO mission has seemed curiously impervious to the deteriorating ties.

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ZAPAD 2013

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Apr 9, 2015

Benitez: Russia’s Military Exercises are Very Dangerous

By Jela de Franceschi and Isabela Cocoli, Voice of America

NATOSource Director and Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Jorge Benitez said that Russian military activities along the Finnish border, the deployment of strategic weapons systems to Kaliningrad and Crimea, and positions across the Baltic Fleet, Black Sea Fleet, and in the western and southern military districts, mimicked a full-scale attack against […]

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Czech soldiers participating in exercise Noble Jump, April 8, 2015

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Apr 9, 2015

Exercise Tests If New NATO Force Can Respond Rapidly

By Naftali Bendavid, Wall Street Journal

When 200 Dutch troops converged on the air force base here this week, it wasn’t a routine case of reporting for duty but a test for a key element of NATO’s response to the renewed Russian threat.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin laying flowers at a monument, April 6, 2015

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Apr 7, 2015

America Will Lose Patience with European Appeasement

By Robert D. Kaplan, Financial Times

[N]o word captures the general mood of Europe better than appeasement.

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Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Estonian Defense Minister Sven Mikser at NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Nov. 20, 2014

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Apr 3, 2015

The Role of Offensive Cyber Operations in NATO’s Collective Defense

By James A. Lewis, NATO CCD COE

The central question for NATO’s cyber doctrine is how the lack of an articulated offensive cyber capability affects its ability to deter or defend.

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Military parade in Moscow, May 9, 2014

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Apr 2, 2015

Report: Russia Threatens Nuclear Showdown Over the Baltic Republics

By The Independent and The Times (London)

From Ian Johnston, The Independent: According to notes made by an American at a meeting between Russian generals and US officials – and seen by The Times newspaper – Moscow threatened a “spectrum of responses from nuclear to non-military” if Nato moved more forces into Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

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President Barack Obama, Nov. 14, 2014

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Apr 1, 2015

Obama Declares National Emergency Due to Foreign Cyber Attacks

By Barack Obama, White House

I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, find that the increasing prevalence and severity of malicious cyber-enabled activities originating from, or directed by persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United […]

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German CH-53, Feb. 25, 2015

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Mar 31, 2015

German Military No Longer Standing at Ease as Security Fears Grow

By Stefan Wagstyl, Financial Times

[T]he Russian threat to European stability has galvanised backing for a more active military. A recent YouGov poll showed 49 per cent support for increased defence spending, versus 36 per cent against.

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Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, March 30, 2015

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Mar 30, 2015

General Hodges: Ukraine Target of Massive Amounts of Artillery and Rocket Fire

By Defense News

The fighting that has been going on in Ukraine is a very serious, kinetic, violent steel-on-steel fight. This is not some rebels sniping at each other.

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