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Jun 20, 2025

NATO Defense Spending Tracker

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Kristen Taylor

The Transatlantic Security Initiative’s NATO defense spending tracker delves into data and figures to analyze current defense spending trends.

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Apr 20, 2014

Brattberg: Is There a US Pivot To Europe?

By Erik Brattberg

Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Fellow Erik Brattberg writes for the National Interest on what the crisis in Ukraine might mean for NATO and for US interests in Europe: 

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, April 17, 2014

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Apr 18, 2014

NATO: ‘Fly-on-the-Wall’ Film Behind Vladimir Putin’s Rasmussen Jab

By Naftali Bendavid and Ellen Emmerentze, Wall Street Journal

A North Atlantic Treaty Organization spokeswoman blamed a “fly-on-the-wall documentary” as the source of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen was using a Dictaphone while he was Danish prime minister to secretly record a meeting.

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Unidentified gunmen at Simferopol Airport, Feb. 28, 2014

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Apr 18, 2014

Putin’s Way of War and NATO’s Article Five

By Janine Davidson, Council on Foreign Relations

NATO countries have been reluctant to provide support to Ukraine’s military, who is not a member of the transatlantic alliance and therefore not entitled to a collective defensive response under NATO’s Article Five.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, April 17, 2014

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Apr 18, 2014

Stop Blaming NATO for Putin’s Provocations

By James Goldgeier, New Republic

The principal problem with the argument against NATO enlargement is that it never offers an alternative beyond leaving Europe frozen in time in 1989.

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Apr 18, 2014

Call for Submissions: NATO Infographic Contest

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Are you a graphics designer? Want to try your hand with free online infographic making tools?

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An armed man in Slaviansk, Ukraine April 16, 2014

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Apr 18, 2014

NATO Military Commander: Evidence Proves Russian Forces Already in Ukraine

By Philip M. Breedlove, Allied Command Operations

It’s hard to fathom that groups of armed men in masks suddenly sprang forward from the population in eastern Ukraine and systematically began to occupy government facilities. It’s hard to fathom because it’s simply not true.

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One of the ships in NATO's naval group is the BNS Bellis

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Apr 17, 2014

NATO Sending Five Ships to Baltic to Bolster Defense of Eastern Allies

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

NATO is sending part of its naval rapid reaction force to the Baltic Sea as part of measures to step up the defence of its eastern European allies in response to the Ukraine crisis, the alliance said on Thursday.

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CF-18 Hornets

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Apr 17, 2014

Canada Sending Six Fighter Jets for NATO Operation in Eastern Europe

By Hannah Thibedeau, CBC News

Canada is sending six CF-18s and military personnel to assist NATO in operations in Eastern Europe.

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Event Recap

Apr 17, 2014

The End of the Peace Dividend and the Future of Transatlantic Relations

The era of peace in Europe that has lasted 25 years is drawing to an end, according to Poland’s Minister of National Defense Tomasz Siemoniak. In a public speech at the Atlantic Council, Minister Siemoniak discussed the importance of NATO’s ability to react to the ongoing crisis on its eastern flank as the threat from […]

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SACEUR Gen. Philip Breedlove and SACT Gen. Jean-Paul Palomeros, May 14, 2013

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Apr 16, 2014

SACEUR: Several NATO Members Have Offered to Deploy Ground Troops in Eastern Allies

By Julian Borger and Paul Lewis, Guardian

The Nato commander in Europe, General Philip Breedlove, said several Nato member states had offered ground troops for deployment in eastern European member states and that he would be soon making recommendations on how they should be positioned.

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