NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Supreme Allied Commander Transformation General Paloméros to Anchor the NATO Transformation Seminar on the Key Challenges Leading Up to the NATO Warsaw Summit

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After a failed attack, Hezbollah’s propaganda seeks to prevent a wider war with Israel

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David Daoud

Committed as Hezbollah is to saving its Gaza-based allies, the group does not currently want a full war with Israel.

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Supreme Allied Commander Transformation General Paloméros to Anchor the NATO Transformation Seminar on the Key Challenges Leading Up to the NATO Warsaw Summit

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Aug 21, 2024

How quickly can Taiwan integrate US weapon systems? Speed is essential to help deter China.

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Adam Kozloski

To better prepare Taiwan to defend itself, the United States needs more transparency into Taipei’s weapons integration challenges.

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Supreme Allied Commander Transformation General Paloméros to Anchor the NATO Transformation Seminar on the Key Challenges Leading Up to the NATO Warsaw Summit

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Aug 21, 2024

Invasion? What invasion? Putin is downplaying Ukraine’s Kursk offensive

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Peter Dickinson

Vladimir Putin’s efforts to downplay Ukraine’s invasion of Russia have severely dented his strongman image and make a mockery of the West’s escalation fears, writes Peter Dickinson.

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Mar 18, 2015

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Supreme Allied Commander Transformation General Paloméros to Anchor the NATO Transformation Seminar on the Key Challenges Leading Up to the NATO Warsaw Summit

By Atlantic Council

The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) General Jean-Paul Paloméros will address this year’s NATO Transformation Seminar (NTS) on March 25, 2015 at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, DC. This will be the first public address of the NATO Secretary General in the United States.

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NATO leaders at Cardiff Castle, Sept. 4, 2015

NATOSource

Mar 17, 2015

NATO’s Article 5 and Russian Hybrid Warfare

By Edgar Buckley and Ioan Pascu

We warned last year (The Way to Avoid Wars: Article 5 and Strategic Reassurance Revisited) that any move by Russian forces into Eastern Ukraine would be highly destabilizing and have unpredictable results

NATO
Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dec. 18, 2014

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Mar 16, 2015

Putin Willing to Put Russian Nuclear Forces on Alert in Support of Attack on Ukraine

By Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post

Russian President Vladimir Putin personally directed his nation’s capture of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, he said in a documentary aired Sunday, in which he offered details of his deep involvement in last year’s quick and effective takeover.

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US tank arriving in Riga, March 10, 2015

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Mar 14, 2015

US Sending 3,000 Troops to Baltic Allies

By Jon Harper, Stars and Stripes

Thousands of troops and major hardware from the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division are heading to the Baltic region to reassure NATO allies

NATO
Northern Europe
Italian helicopter participating in NATO exercise, June 24, 2009

NATOSource

Mar 13, 2015

Defending Italy from the Islamic State

By James Stavridis, Washington Post

Following the decapitation of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by radical Islamists professing an allegiance to the Islamic State, the Italian government has begun ramping up efforts to defend its territory from attack. How realistic is this threat? And what should Italy do?

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Defense Industrialist

Mar 11, 2015

Treaty Limitation Spurs Military Innovation

By James Hasik

Boeing and Saab’s ground-launched glide bomb is quite possibly a brilliantly cost-effective supplement to close air support. The defense trade press has devoted a flurry of coverage over the past two days to Boeing and Saab’s announcement that it recently tested a ground-launched version of the GBU-39B Small Diameter Bomb (SDB). The 250-pound unitary is a clean replacement of the cluster munitions on […]

Defense Industry
Security & Defense
Prime Minister David Cameron visits British Troops in Afghanistan, June 11, 2010

NATOSource

Mar 11, 2015

UK Looks to Pad Defense Spending Data

By Elizabeth Rigby and Sam Jones, Financial Times

David Cameron has asked ministers to investigate if the intelligence agencies budget can be counted as “defence spending”, as Downing Street eyes creative accountancy to head off US criticism of military spending.

Intelligence
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Mar 11, 2015

Update on security in Nigeria and the campaign against Boko Haram

By Africa Center

Please join the Africa Center on Wednesday, March 11, for a discussion with Ambassador Ayodele Oke, Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He will be joined by Rear Admiral Gabriel E. Okoi, Chief of Defence Intelligence of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. They will provide an update on the […]

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A German Army Leopard II tank, Oct. 25, 2012

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Mar 10, 2015

Calls in Germany Grow to Reverse Cuts to Army

By Anton Troianovski, Wall Street Journal

[A] chorus of leading German politicians is saying the Ukraine conflict calls for boosting military spending—until recently, a political taboo.

Germany
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Pro-Russian fighters in Sloviansk, April 16, 2014

NATOSource

Mar 10, 2015

How Many Russians Are Fighting in Ukraine?

By Mark Urban, BBC

The Kremlin has denied its forces are directly involved in combat, but the latest estimate by US Lt Gen Ben Hodges, commander of the US Army in Europe, says 12,000 Russian troops are operating inside the neighbouring country.

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