Category: NATOSource

NATOSource: First Strategic Concept Seminar Announced

By NATO

From NATO: the Secretary General is now leading a process that will lead itself to the new strategic concept. There will be a number of events to feed the strategic debate and the deliberations of the group of experts. We will have strategic concepts, seminars which will be attended by the experts as a group […]

NATOSource: Capital Hill Republicans Announce Opposition to White House Missile Defense Decision

This morning’s announcement by President Obama that the U.S. will abandon its planned missile defense system with Poland and the Czech Republic has produced immediate and negative responses from Congressional leaders. Congressman John Boehner, the House minority leader, told the New York Times that, “[s]crapping the U.S. missile defense system in Poland and the Czech […]

Europe reacts to Obama dropping missile defence shield

By the Guardian

From the Guardian: Ellen Tauscher, the state department’s under-secretary for arms control, and Alexander Vershbow, deputy defence secretary and former US ambassador to Russia and Nato, were in Warsaw and Prague today doing the explaining . . . “The Americans only cared about their interests. They used everybody else,” said Lech Walesa, the former Polish […]

NATO expects close work with U.S. on missiles

By Reuters

From Reuters: NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he had spoken to U.S. officials on Thursday but did not react directly to the reports that Washington is backing away from its missile defense project involving sites in Poland and the Czech Republic, which has provoked Russian concerns. “It is my clear impression that the American […]

FACT SHEET U.S. Missile Defense Policy A Phased, Adaptive Approach for Missile Defense in Europe

By the White House

From the White House: Throughout all four phases, the United States also will be testing and updating a range of approaches for improving our sensors for missile defense. The new distributed interceptor and sensor architecture also does not require a single, large, fixed European radar that was to be located in the Czech Republic; this […]

Remarks by the President on Strengthening Missile Defense in Europe

By the White House

From the White House: [W]e have made specific and proven advances in our missile defense technology, particularly with regard to land- and sea-based interceptors and the sensors that support them. Our new approach will, therefore, deploy technologies that are proven and cost-effective and that counter the current threat, and do so sooner than the previous […]

Time for Russia to show it is serious

By the Financial Times

From the Financial Times: This week, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the new Nato secretary-general, followed suit, telling the FT he wants to start an “open-minded and unprecedented dialogue” with the Kremlin on security issues. These words have been accompanied by action to allay Russian concerns, such as an effective halt to Nato’s eastward expansion. Yet in […]

TSCP Welcomes French Republic as New Member

By Reuters

From Reuters: As the pressure from cyber security attacks around the world escalates, the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program (TSCP) today announced a third expansion in membership this year, with the addition of the French Republic. France’s Network and Information Security Agency (ANSSI), responsible for defining government policy and safeguarding information systems against cyber threats, will […]

Norway Keeps Leftists in Power

By the New York Times

From the New York Times: Norwegian voters have returned their Labor-dominated government to office, narrowly endorsing Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg’s pursuit of expanded public services and rejecting angry demands by some of his opponents to crack down harshly on immigration. According to official results with 99.9 percent of the votes counted early Tuesday, Mr. Stoltenberg’s […]

US puts Europeans on alert to provide more troops for Afghan campaign

By the Guardian

From the Guardian: The US will insist that Britain and other European states provide any military reinforcements for the Afghanistan operation, Nato sources said today. The top US commander, General Stanley McChrystal, has yet to indicate whether he will ask for more troops this autumn to augment the existing force of just over 100,000. But […]