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Russia Concerned Finland and Sweden Moving Closer To NATO

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Russia Concerned Finland and Sweden Moving Closer To NATO

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, May 29, 2014

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Apr 13, 2015

Russia Concerned Finland and Sweden Moving Closer To NATO

By YLE and Helsinki Times

From YLE:  The Russian Foreign Ministry has written an article on its website condemning a Nordic minister declaration that appeared in the Norwegian paper Aftenposten last Thursday.

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Russia's Ambassador to NATO, Alexander Grushko

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Apr 10, 2015

NATO Reduces Size of Russian Delegation After Internal Reports of Espionage

By Michael R. Gordon, New York Times

For a year after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization cut back its cooperation with Russia as punishment for the country’s incursions into Ukraine, Russia’s NATO mission has seemed curiously impervious to the deteriorating ties.

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ZAPAD 2013

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Apr 9, 2015

Benitez: Russia’s Military Exercises are Very Dangerous

By Jela de Franceschi and Isabela Cocoli, Voice of America

NATOSource Director and Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Jorge Benitez said that Russian military activities along the Finnish border, the deployment of strategic weapons systems to Kaliningrad and Crimea, and positions across the Baltic Fleet, Black Sea Fleet, and in the western and southern military districts, mimicked a full-scale attack against […]

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Apr 9, 2015

The Bear is Inside the Wire

By Frank J. Cilluffo and Sharon L. Cardash

Russian hackers, fresh from breaching the State Department’s unclassified networks in recent months, have managed to sneak into “sensitive but unclassified” White House networks, CNN reported on April 7. The perpetrators gained access to real-time non-public details of the President’s schedule, precisely the type of information foreign intelligence services prioritize for collection. The White House […]

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Czech soldiers participating in exercise Noble Jump, April 8, 2015

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Apr 9, 2015

Exercise Tests If New NATO Force Can Respond Rapidly

By Naftali Bendavid, Wall Street Journal

When 200 Dutch troops converged on the air force base here this week, it wasn’t a routine case of reporting for duty but a test for a key element of NATO’s response to the renewed Russian threat.

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New Atlanticist

Apr 9, 2015

Nuclear Deal May Elicit More Bad Behavior from Iran, Says Ex-NSA Jones

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Free of sanctions, Tehran ‘will become more aggressive’ A nuclear deal in hand and free of Western sanctions, Iran could more aggressively undermine US allies through “cyber attacks, subversion, and terrorism,” retired Gen James L. Jones, Jr., said April 8. “Even if a deal is concluded, it is possible that an emboldened Iran free of […]

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Apr 8, 2015

Biberman in Wiley Online Library: One Shield, Two Responses: Anti‐U.S. Missile Defense Shield Protests in the Czech Republic and Poland

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Apr 4, 2015

Benitez on Russian Military Exercises

By Jorge Benitez

Voice of America quotes NATOSource Director and Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Jorge Benitez on Russian military exercises near the borders of NATO countries:

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Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Estonian Defense Minister Sven Mikser at NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Nov. 20, 2014

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Apr 3, 2015

The Role of Offensive Cyber Operations in NATO’s Collective Defense

By James A. Lewis, NATO CCD COE

The central question for NATO’s cyber doctrine is how the lack of an articulated offensive cyber capability affects its ability to deter or defend.

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Apr 3, 2015

Rafales, Not Rules

By James Hasik

While Foggy Bottom and the Pentagon and the White House make policy, the Élysée Palace makes sales. King Abdullah wants drones, and 23 US congressmen want to loan Jordan some American Predators for the duration of the war. The Emirates want drones, and my colleague Bilal Saab told the Beirut Daily Star that industry there is getting quite capable making […]

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