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Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski and Secretary of State John Kerry

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Apr 2, 2014

Ukraine Crisis: Poland Calls for 10,000 NATO Troops on its Territory

By Financial Times, New York Times, Telegraph

From Financial Times:  The violation of Kiev’s security guarantees by Russia’s invasion of Crimea and the build-up of Russian troops on Ukraine’s borders has prompted Warsaw to ask for a deployment of two heavy brigades of Nato troops to Poland.

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NATO's military commander Gen. Philip Breedlove

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Apr 2, 2014

Russian Invasion of Ukraine Could Succeed in 3 to 5 Days: NATO General

By Adrian Croft, Reuters

Russia has massed all the forces it needs on Ukraine’s border if it were to decide to carry out an “incursion” into the country and it could achieve its objective in three to five days, NATO’s top military commander said on Wednesday.

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SACEUR visits HQ ARRC, Nov. 15, 2013

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Apr 2, 2014

SACEUR Weighs Options To Strengthen NATO’s Eastern Defenses

By Bloomberg News and Wall Street Journal

From James G. Neuger and Gopal Ratnam, Bloomberg News:  NATO’s top military commander is exploring ways to strengthen collective security in Europe

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Meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers, April 1, 2014

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Apr 1, 2014

Details of NATO Plans for Increased Military Cooperation with Countries Near Russia

By Ian Traynor, Guardian

Nato has drawn up plans to strengthen military co-operation with the former Soviet states on Russia’s southern flank after the Kremlin’s seizure of Ukraine’s Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, April 1, 2014

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Apr 1, 2014

NATO Suspends Low and Mid-Level Cooperation with Russia

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

We have just discussed the crisis in Ukraine with NATO foreign ministers, and the foreign minister of Ukraine.

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Cold Response 2012exercise

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Apr 1, 2014

As Russia Growls, Swedes, Finns Eye Defense Options, NATO

By Alistair Scrutton and Sakari Suoninen, Reuters

When Russian warplanes staged a mock bombing run on Sweden last year, air defences were caught napping. It was the middle of the night and no Swedish planes were scrambled.

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Feb. 27, 2014

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Apr 1, 2014

NATO Secretary General: ‘The Right to Choose’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

The crisis in Ukraine is calling into question the very principles upon which we have built the modern Europe.

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, April 1, 2014

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Apr 1, 2014

Secretary General: Russian Aggression Against Ukraine Brings Instability to NATO’s Borders

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Russia’s aggression against Ukraine challenges our vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace. It fundamentally changes Europe’s security landscape. And it causes instability right on NATO’s borders.

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New Atlanticist

Mar 31, 2014

Kerry-Lavrov Talks? Fine, But US Must Lead in Real Deterrence to Putin on Ukraine

By James Rupert

Yesterday’s talks between Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov kept hope alive that Ukraine’s fields this spring might be visited by harvesters scything the winter wheat, instead of by Russian tanks and bomb craters. But while Lavrov agreed in Paris that a diplomatic solution to the crisis is needed, the […]

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Mar 31, 2014

How to Avoid Wars: NATO’s Article 5 and Strategic Reassurance

By Edgar Buckley and Ioan Pascu

The worst move in an international crisis is to confuse others about your resolve.  That way wars start, witness the first and second world wars when Britain failed to make clear early enough that it would fight. Might NATO be guilty of a similar lack of clarity today?   Not by measuring what it says. The […]

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