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New Deputy Commander of NATO Military

By Allied Command Operations

General Sir Adrian Bradshaw today became NATO’s Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe (DSACEUR), assuming responsibilities from outgoing DSACEUR, General Sir Richard Shirreff.

President of Estonia: Russia has to Pay a Price for its Aggression

By Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Washington Post

Russia’s aggression in Ukraine marks a paradigm shift, the end of trust in the post-Cold War order.

NATO Officially Appoints Norway’s Jens Stoltenberg to be Next Secretary General

By NATO

From NATO:  This afternoon, the North Atlantic Council decided to appoint Mr. Jens Stoltenberg as Secretary General of NATO and Chairman of the North Atlantic Council, in succession to Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Baltic Republics Pledge More Defense Spending as Ukraine Crisis Continues

By Lithuania, Latvia, and Financial Times

From Office of the President of Lithuania:  Membership in NATO and the European Union is our indisputable strength – which was confirmed by life itself.

NATO Challenged to Agree on Nature of Threat from Russia

By Economist

Almost nobody connected with NATO believes that the crisis created by Russia’s appropriation of Crimea will quickly fade.

Putin’s Challenge to the West Not Limited to Ukraine

By Robert M. Gates, Wall Street Journal

Mr. Putin aspires to restore Russia’s global power and influence and to bring the now-independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union back into Moscow’s orbit.

A Trading Power: Germany’s Hyperrealistic Foreign Policy

By Thomas Paulsen

German foreign policy is in dire straits, if we believe experts at home and abroad. Germany is criticized for being too passive on an international level, and for being unwilling to shoulder the kind of international responsibilities that would seem to be commensurate with its greater size.

NATO advanced research workshop on confidence building in cyberspace

NATO advanced research workshop on “Confidence-Building in Cyberspace ” was hosted by the Swedish Institute for National Defense and Security Policy Studies, the Swedish National Defense College, and the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative March 25 – 27, 2014. The event was supported by the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme (SPS) which seeks […]