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Sweden Hunts Suspected Foreign Submarine Off Stockholm Coast

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Aug 21, 2024

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Sweden Hunts Suspected Foreign Submarine Off Stockholm Coast

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Aug 21, 2024

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

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Swedish attack submarine HMS Gotland

NATOSource

Oct 17, 2014

Sweden Hunts Suspected Foreign Submarine Off Stockholm Coast

By AFP and Reuters

From AFP:  The Swedish armed forces announced a military operation in islands off Stockholm late Friday evening following reports of suspicious “foreign underwater activity.”

Intelligence
Northern Europe
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at the Wales Summit, Sept. 4, 2014

NATOSource

Oct 17, 2014

Poll: Support for NATO Membership Grows In Ukraine

By AFP

The number of Ukrainians in favor of joining the NATO alliance has risen sharply during Kiev’s drawn-out conflict with pro-Russian rebels in the east of the country, a poll showed Thursday.

NATO
NATO Partnerships
Russian Topol-M/SS-27 missile

NATOSource

Oct 16, 2014

Russia’s Nuclear Missile Forces Create Cybersecurity Units: Defense Ministry

By RIA Novosti and Xinhua

From RIA Novosti:  Sopka teams, tasked to detect and prevent cyberattacks, have been created within the Russian Strategic Missile Forces (SMF), the ministry’s Strategic Missile Forces spokesman Col. Igor Yegorov told journalists Thursday.

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Nuclear Nonproliferation
German Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen, Jan. 31, 2014

NATOSource

Oct 16, 2014

A Crisis in German Defense

By Peter Dörrie, War is Boring

The German armed forces have come clean. They’ve admitted they’re incapable of managing arms procurement—and have systematically neglected the hardware that’s already in service.

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NATO
Noble Justification is a "high-density, high-threat scenario"

NATOSource

Oct 15, 2014

Over Twenty Warships Participating in NATO Exercise ‘Noble Justification’

By NATO

A large fleet of naval vessels is taking part in the multinational “Noble Justification” military exercise which is underway in the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.

NATO
NATO Partnerships
US and Iraqi soldiers in Diyala province, Feb. 13, 2008

NATOSource

Oct 15, 2014

Washington Wants NATO Allies to Help Retrain the Iraqi Military

By Gopal Ratnam, Foreign Policy

The difficult and dangerous task of retraining Iraqi security forces to take on the Islamic State militants who’ve made impressive gains in the north and west of Iraq will require large numbers of trainers from the United States and NATO nations

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NATO
NATO and the Ukrainian government were targetted by Russian hackers

NATOSource

Oct 14, 2014

Russian Hackers Use ‘Zero-Day’ to Hack NATO, Ukraine in Cyber-Spy Campaign

By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post

A Russian hacking group probably working for the government has been exploiting a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft’s Windows operating system to spy on NATO, the Ukrainian government, a U.S. university researcher and other national security targets

Cybersecurity
NATO
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Oct. 1, 2014

NATOSource

Oct 14, 2014

NATO’s New Secretary-General Takes Over Alliance in Need of Money—and Unity

By Maria Savel, World Politics Review

Jens Stoltenberg, former prime minister of Norway, assumed the position of secretary-general of NATO on Oct. 1. He takes over the job at an important juncture for NATO:

NATO
Security & Defense

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Oct 13, 2014

Benitez on New NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg

By Jorge Benitez

World Politics Review quotes NATOSource Director and Brent Scowcroft Center Senior Fellow Jorge Benitez on NATO’s new secretary-general:

NATO
Security & Defense

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Oct 12, 2014

Brattberg on NATO Tackling Threats from Russia

By Erik Brattberg

The Daily Beast quotes Brent Scowcroft Center Resident Fellow Erik Brattberg on whether NATO is up to the task of dealing with threats from Moscow: 

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