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Essays on the Alliance’s future

NATO’s seventy-fifth anniversary is a milestone in a remarkable story of reinvention, adaptation, and unity. However, as the Alliance seeks to secure its future for the next seventy-five years, it faces revanchist old rivals, escalating strategic competition, and uncertainties over the future of the rules-based international order. 

With partners and allies turning attention from celebrations to challenges, the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Security Initiative invited contributors to engage with the most pressing concerns ahead of the historic Washington summit and chart a path for the Alliance’s future. This series features seven essays focused on concrete issues that NATO must address at the Washington summit and five essays that examine longer-term challenges the Alliance must confront to ensure transatlantic security. 

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The 2015 annual report by NATO's Secretary General

NATOSource

Feb 1, 2016

Valuable Data from the Annual Report by NATO’s Secretary General

By Jens Stoltenberg, NATO

The NATO Response Force (NRF) is a highly ready and technologically advanced multinational force made up of land, air, maritime and Special Operations Forces components that the Alliance can deploy quickly, wherever needed, when authorised by the North Atlantic Council

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Europe's Threat Environment

NATOSource

Jan 27, 2016

Pentagon: Top Priority of US Military Forces in Europe is to Deter Russian Aggression

By United States European Command

In response to the theater challenges and desired end states, and in support of higher level guidance, USEUCOM will concentrate its collective efforts on six theater priorities over the next three to five years.

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NATO Global Hawk

NATOSource

Jan 26, 2016

NATO’s Five Global Hawk Drones Due in Sicily by Year’s End

By Tom Kington, Defense News

NATO is due to have all five of its Global Hawks delivered by year end to a Sicilian air base where 600 personnel will keep them flying, officials said

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In the News

Jan 25, 2016

Wilson Joins Realitatea TV to Discuss Black Sea Security, NATO, and the Road to the Warsaw Summit

By Damon Wilson

Watch the full interview here.

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Russian Missile Hovercraft Bora

NATOSource

Jan 21, 2016

Russia to Respond to NATO Black Sea Force by Deploying New Weapons – Report

By RT

The Russian Army and Navy will deploy additional forces and modern weapons to its southwest in reply to NATO’s plans to boost its presence in the Black Sea region, a Russian newspaper reported quoting Defense Ministry sources.

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USS Porter and Romania's ROS Marcellariu training in the Black Sea, July 14, 2015

NATOSource

Jan 21, 2016

Romania Wants Permanent NATO Black Sea Force

By Transitions Online and EurasiaNet

From Transitions Online: At NATO’s July summit, Bucharest will propose that a regular multinational naval force patrol the area.

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New Atlanticist

Jan 20, 2016

Keeping Georgia’s NATO Dream Alive

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili says progress in European and Euro-Atlantic integration will be a ‘good incentive’ for Georgian support for continuing reforms Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili was catapulted to office in December of 2015 after the abrupt resignation of his predecessor, Irakli Garibashvili. In his previous role as Foreign Minister, Kvirikashvili led significant […]

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Gen. Frank Gorenc, Commander of US Air Force in Europe and Africa, Sept. 15, 2014

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Jan 19, 2016

US Air Force General Says Russia Missile Defense ‘Very Serious’

By Rick Gladstone, New York Times

The commander of United States Air Force operations in Europe and Africa expressed “very serious” concern Monday over what he described as big buildups of complex Russian missile defenses

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NATO Deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow

NATOSource

Jan 15, 2016

NATO and 21st Century Deterrence

By Alexander Vershbow, NATO

New and increasingly authoritarian laws have further restricted basic freedoms for Russian civil society. Russia persists with its efforts to undermine Ukraine politically, economically and militarily. Russia has yet to live up to its part of the Minsk agreements, even though there have been a few lulls in the fighting. Russia’s aggressive military build-up continues, […]

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Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Oct. 5, 2015

NATOSource

Jan 13, 2016

Jens Stoltenberg: NATO’s Role in Fighting Terrorism

By Jens Stoltenberg, Newsweek

NATO is at the forefront of the fight against international terrorism. The aim of its biggest-ever operation was to deny safe haven to international terrorists in Afghanistan.

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