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The geo-strategic area around Suwalki, Poland has a rich and complex history

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Feb 9, 2016

NATO’s Vulnerable Link in Europe: Poland’s Suwalki Gap

By Agnia Grigas

The Pentagon’s decision to quadruple its 2017 budget for European defence due to the perceived threat of Russian aggression and the recent RAND report noting the difficulties NATO would have defending the Baltic States, are once again bringing to the forefront the risks on Europe’s frontier states.

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Feb 9, 2016

Barno and Bensahel in War on the Rocks: Beyond the Army Commission: Unifying the Army’s Components

By David Barno & Nora Bensahel

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Feb 8, 2016

Gramer in Foreign Affairs: Changing Tides

By Robbie Gramer

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Defense ministers at meeting of NATO-Ukraine Commission, June 25, 2015

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Feb 8, 2016

NATO Defense Ministers to Discuss New Hybrid Warfare Playbook

By Julian E. Barnes, Wall Street Journal

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is developing a new strategy to speed decision-making and improve its response to the kind of unconventional warfare the West says Russia has used in Crimea and eastern Ukraine

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Feb 8, 2016

Ullman in Defense News: Republican Defense Know-Nothings

By Harlan Ullman

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Feb 8, 2016

Ullman in UPI: NATO Needs a New Strategy

By Harlan Ullman

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Feb 6, 2016

Biberman in Terrorism and Political Violence: Why terrorists target children: Outbidding, desperation, and extremism in the Peshawar and Beslan school massacres

By Atlantic Council

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Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, Dec. 3, 2015

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Feb 4, 2016

A NATO Message for Mr. Putin

By Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal

[W]e’re glad to see the Obama Administration finally doing more to secure NATO’s eastern front against Russia

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Feb 4, 2016

Healey in Christian Science Monitor: How NSA Reorganization Could Squander Remaining Trust

By Jason Healey

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Defense Industrialist

Feb 4, 2016

Options unconsidered

By James Hasik

Which is the question—should carrier drones be tankers, or should tankers just be seaplanes? Turning the US Navy’s next carrier-based drone into a tanker, as the service announced this week, is probably a reasonable idea. For some time, buddy-tanking F-18 Hornets has been a questionable use of other Hornets, but one  completely necessitated since 2009 […]

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