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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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Operation Atlantic Resolve is a series of actions designed to reassure NATO allies and partners

NATOSource

Jul 16, 2014

Operation Atlantic Resolve Fact Sheet

By EUCOM

OPERATION ATLANTIC RESOLVE The United States continues to demonstrate its commitment to the collective security of our NATO allies and support for our partners in Europe, in light of the on-going Russian intervention in Ukraine.

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Event Recap

Jul 16, 2014

Transition Seminar for the Republic of Macedonia’s Minister of Defense Zoran Jolevski

As Russia continues to destabilize Ukraine, many of NATO’s European partners are anxious to walk through NATO’s ‘open-door’ to Alliance membership to guarantee their security and further integrate with the Euro-Atlantic community. But NATO has recently hinted that the Alliance will not be adding any new members at its upcoming summit in Wales this September.

NATO Security & Defense
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, July 2, 2014

NATOSource

Jul 14, 2014

Rasmussen: If Attacked, NATO Members ‘Can Count on the Aid of All Other 27’ Allies

By Spiegel

Excerpts from interview of NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen by Christiane Hoffmann and Christoph Schult, Spiegel.

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Mistral class warship off Lebanon, March 17, 2012

NATOSource

Jul 14, 2014

Will France’s Mistral Warships Make Russia a Naval Threat?

By Matthew Bodner, Moscow Times

With the first of two French-built Mistral class amphibious assault carriers set to be delivered to the Russian Navy in October, France is handing Russia the keys to one of the world’s most advanced warships

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Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen presents the new NATO Strategic Concept to the media, Nov. 19, 2010

NATOSource

Jul 14, 2014

NATO Leaders Prepare Response to Russia’s Information Warfare

By Sam Jones, Financial Times

Nato has been shaken by the effectiveness of Russia’s online information war during the Ukraine conflict and is now looking for ways to counter the country’s aggressive propaganda campaigns

Cybersecurity Intelligence
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, San Francisco, July 9, 2014

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Jul 11, 2014

Rasmussen: NATO’s Pacific Partners Contribute to World Security

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

NATO was founded to unite America and Europe in the world’s most powerful alliance.

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British minesweeper taking part in the NATO multinational exercise Breeze 2014

NATOSource

Jul 11, 2014

Video: Dueling NATO, Russia Naval Exercises On Black Sea

By Bug Pit and Navy Times

From Joshua Kucera, Bug Pit: Competing Black Sea naval exercises by NATO and Russia have again raised tensions in the region as the once sleepy sea has become a venue for geopolitical competition.

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General Sir Richard Shirreff (ret.), Feb. 18, 2014

NATOSource

Jul 10, 2014

Former NATO Military Leader Calls for Permanent Basing of NATO Troops in the Baltics

By Steven Swinford, Telegraph

[O]ne of Britain’s most senior generals said that British troops should be permanently stationed in the Baltic States as part of a Nato task force to deter an invasion by Russia.

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Armed men, believed to be Russians, near military base in Perevalnoye, March 17, 2014

NATOSource

Jul 9, 2014

NATO Needs Strategy for Russia’s Little Green Men

By Steven Pifer, Spiegel

NATO should think through the implications of the little green men phenomenon, in particular for the Baltic states of Estonia and Latvia.

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Defense Industrialist

Jul 9, 2014

LPTAs “don’t necessarily represent the best value”

By James Hasik

Keep Providers that are Cheap, or Providers that are Good—You Choose. Politico Pro ran an article earlier this week on Engility (NYSE:EGL), in which CEO Anthony Smeraglinolo argues that its “low cost contracting model works,” but that two years in, “the company is now under pressure to prove that it can boost its sales and profit.” Politico goes on to note that […]

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