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Herbst in Newsweek: NATO Catches on to Putin’s Game in Europe

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Herbst in Newsweek: NATO Catches on to Putin’s Game in Europe

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Jul 15, 2016

Herbst in Newsweek: NATO Catches on to Putin’s Game in Europe

By John E. Herbst

Read the full article here.

NATO
Russia
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, July 4, 2016

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Jul 14, 2016

Stoltenberg on NATO and Cyber: Time to Raise Our Game

By Jens Stoltenberg, Defense News

We may not see it but, in the realm of cyberspace, our countries are under attack every single day.

Cybersecurity
NATO

Defense Industrialist

Jul 14, 2016

An Arrow II for Canada?

By James Hasik

The RCAF’s divergent commitments to NORAD and NATO suggest that none of the fighters on offer are quite right for its needs. Canada’s Department of National Defence has had quite a time over the past two weeks at both the NATO Summit and the Farnborough Air Show. The DND is now preparing to deploy 450 […]

Defense Industry
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Jul 14, 2016

Deploy the NATO Response Force to Deter Russia

By Ian Brzezinski

At the NATO Summit in Warsaw on July 8 and 9, the Alliance decided to deploy a multinational battalion in each of the following frontline states:  Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Lithuania. These forces, totaling some 4,000 personnel, are expected to arrive sometime in 2017. Their mission: to deter Russian aggression. Six to nine months, if […]

NATO
Russia

New Atlanticist

Jul 14, 2016

Innovative Energy Technology Makes India Prime Candidate for Nuclear Suppliers Group

By Anil Kakodkar

Subsequent to the setback India suffered to its effort to join the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) at the group’s Seoul plenary in June, the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center commissioned a series of essays on India and its integration into the nonproliferation regime. This initiative seeks to engage academics, policy makers, and analysts on some […]

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Col. Colin Tuley of the 82nd Airborne Division, June 15, 2016 (photo: Sgt. Michael Giles/ U.S. Army National Guard)

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Jul 13, 2016

NATO Faces Up to Russian Challenge

By Ian Brzezinski, CNN

[T]he alliance today is confronted by Russia’s ability to suddenly seize limited swaths of territory along its periphery, including that of the Baltic states and Poland.

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Russia
President Barack Obama, March 14, 2016 (photo: State Department)

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Jul 13, 2016

America’s Alliance with Britain and Europe Will Endure

By Barack Obama, Financial Times

This may be the most important moment for our transatlantic alliance since the end of the cold war.

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Security & Defense
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Polish President Andrzej Duda, July 8, 2016 (photo: NATO)

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Jul 12, 2016

Does Restraint Make Germany an Unreliable Ally?

By Jan Techau, Carnegie Europe

[German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter] Steinmeier rightfully describes how Germany has already come a long way in its foreign policy.

Germany
NATO

In the News

Jul 12, 2016

Brzezinski in CNN: NATO Faces Up to Russian Challenge

By Ian Brzezinski

Read the full article here.

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Russia
NATO Heads of State at Warsaw Summit, July 8, 2016 (photo: NATO)

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Jul 12, 2016

NATO’s Warsaw Summit: A Refreshed Alliance for Troubled Times

By the Editors of the Guardian

[L]ast week in Warsaw, the alliance held a gathering for a new era – one in which Europe’s collective security and territorial defence are once again Nato’s core mission, and with new resources to fulfil it.

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