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Norwegian Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide, June 25, 2014

NATOSource

Dec 14, 2015

Norway’s Defense Minister: It’s Time to Boost NATO’s Maritime Profile

By Ine Marie Eriksen Søreide, Defense News

We need to raise NATO’s profile in the maritime domain. This requires maritime power and presence.

Europe & Eurasia
NATO

In the News

Dec 13, 2015

Forbes Highlights Atlantic Council Report on Costs of Cyber Attacks

By Atlantic Council

Forbes highlights the joint Atlantic Council and Zurich Insurance Group study, Risk Nexus: Beyond Data Breaches: Global Interconnections of Cyber Risk, that outlines the potential financial impact of future cyber attacks:

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense
SACEUR Gen. Philip Breedlove, May 21, 2015

NATOSource

Dec 11, 2015

SACEUR Breedlove Looks Back as He Charts NATO’s New Path

By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes

For NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Philip Breedlove, the intelligence coming into his headquarters pointed to a watershed moment for European security, but not everyone wanted to see it that way.

NATO
Russia

In the News

Dec 11, 2015

Benitez on UN-Russian Relations

By Jorge Benitez

Stars and Stripes quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow and NATOSource Director Jorge Benitez on NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Phillip Breedlove’s approach toward Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s intervention in Ukraine:

NATO
Russia

Defense Industrialist

Dec 10, 2015

“Not hesitant to use this power for corporate advantage”

By James Hasik

Just how politically problematic is concentration in the defense industry? Back in September, Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s procurement chief, took the trouble to make a rather forceful on-the-record statement about Lockheed Martin’s then-pending purchase of Sikorsky. He admitted that the deal posed no classical anti-trust concerns, but he worried about how even […]

Defense Industry
Security & Defense
Gen. Ben Hodges, Commander of US Army Europe, Dec. 9, 2015

NATOSource

Dec 10, 2015

Russia Could Block Access to Baltic Sea, US General Says

By Defense One, Defense News, and Army News Service

From Marcus Weisgerber, Defense One:  Russia has moved ballistic missiles to and conducted nuclear strike drills from its Kaliningrad exclave, prompting Pentagon fears that Moscow could block access to the Baltic Sea.

Central Europe
Hungary

Defense Industrialist

Dec 10, 2015

Is the LRS-B urgently needed?

By James Hasik and Rachel Rizzo

The new bomber isn’t coming soon, but some stopgaps should be. Seven years ago, Robert Haffa and Michael Isherwood of Northrop Grumman’s Analysis Center argued that the US Air Force urgently needed a new bomber—indeed, by 2018. Enemy missiles, they thought, could shut down the remaining forward airfields from which American fighter-bombers could fly. Those […]

Defense Industry
Defense Technologies
Prime Minister of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic, March 25, 2014

NATOSource

Dec 9, 2015

NATO Moves Forward with Montenegro

By Janusz Bugajski & Srdjan Darmanovic, American Interest

Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin has been adamantly opposed to further NATO enlargement. Following NATO’s invitation to Montenegro, Russian officials immediately asserted that they would be forced to react.

NATO
Russia

Webcasts

Dec 9, 2015

Cyber Risk Wednesday: 2016 Threat Landscape

By Brent Scowcroft Center

Please join the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative on Wednesday, December 9 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. for a moderated panel discussion with a group of prominent cybersecurity experts.

Cybersecurity
Security & Defense

In the News

Dec 9, 2015

Grigas: Russia’s Motives in the Baltic State

By Agina Grigas

Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Nonresident Senior Fellow Agnia Grigas writes for the Foreign Policy Research Institute on Russia’s use of influence in the Baltic States to attempt to destabilize NATO:

NATO
Russia

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