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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 Transatlantic Security Initiative, in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, shapes and influences the debate on the greatest security challenges facing the North Atlantic Alliance and its key partners.

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Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Dec. 2, 2014

NATOSource

Jan 6, 2015

NATO’s Priority in 2015: Setting Up Reaction Force in Europe

By John-Thor Dahlburg, AP

Leaving combat operations in Afghanistan behind, NATO is shifting its focus to Europe in 2015 and the creation of its new ultra-rapid-reaction force, designed as a deterrent to Russia.

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British soldiers in Afghanistan, Aug. 12, 2014

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Jan 5, 2015

Britain May Cut Defense Spending Below NATO 2% Target

By Rosa Prince, Telegraph

A future Conservative government could cut spending on the Armed Forces to below two per cent of the country’s budget, David Cameron has admitted.

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Gen. Jean-Paul Palomeros, Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Jan. 14, 2013

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Jan 2, 2015

Palomeros: NATO’s Commitment to Readiness

By Jean-Paul Palomeros, Defense News

The NATO Summit in Wales was a key milestone for the alliance. It has ensured our security and protected democratic values in the Euro-Atlantic Area for 65 years.

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NATO leaders at the Wales Summit, Sept. 4, 2014

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Jan 2, 2015

10 Most Popular NATO Stories of 2014

By Jorge Benitez, Director of NATOSource

Happy New Year and welcome to 2015. Below are the ten most popular stories on our website in 2014.

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NATOSource

Jan 2, 2015

Lithuania Detains Alleged Russian Spy Ring at Major NATO Airbase

By Damien Sharkov, Newsweek

Several members of an alleged Russian spy ring within the Lithuanian armed forces were detained by the national general prosecution on Wednesday in the Lithuanian city of Šiauliai, near NATO’s major Baltic air base

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Defense Industrialist

Dec 31, 2014

Setting Up for Innovative Success

By Alex Haber, Jeff Jeffress

Defense can apply a set of flexible parameters to keep the practice of innovation relevant and meaningful.   In just under 60 pages, the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review uses some form of the word innovation 33 times. That’s more than you’ll find the terms soldier, Air Force, coordination, direction, and policy—combined. Colleagues across defense agree […]

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Defense Industrialist

Dec 30, 2014

Organizing that Coastal Artillery

By James Hasik

Comparative military organization shows how organizational culture and bureaucratic politics affect defense planning.   The host of essays in recent months speculating about a rebuilt Coastal Artillery for the US Army requires some followup. The argument for coastal defenses clearly has some merit. If it’s reasonable to field ground-based anti-aircraft batteries, while still relying substantially on […]

NATO Security & Defense

Defense Industrialist

Dec 26, 2014

David Berteau Wants to Actually Plan for Sustainment

By James Hasik

  An incoming assistant secretary’s focus will be essential for holding down spending in the long run.   It’s a shame that Ashton Carter keeps getting all the attention. In more than a crosstown nod to a think-taking colleague, I’d like to highlight another incoming Pentagon appointee, David Berteau, who is entering office with an ambitious idea. As reported […]

NATO Security & Defense

Issue Brief

Dec 23, 2014

The Die Is Cast: Confronting Russian Aggression in Eastern Europe

By Christopher Musselman

Despite a crumbling economy, Russian President Vladimir Putin remains defiant in increasing Moscow’s influence in eastern Europe. In Ukraine, cease-fire agreements have only prolonged Kyiv’s battle against Russian-backed separatists in its east. Simultaneously, the Kremlin’s subversive economic and political actions in eastern Europe and former Soviet states continue unabated, confirming that Ukraine is unlikely to […]

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Russian Mig-31, March 31, 2012

NATOSource

Dec 19, 2014

Five Weapons Russia Could Use in an Arctic War

By Robert Farley, National Interest

It’s not surprising that Russia has prepared its military for arctic operations better than any other country.

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