Security & Defense

NATO’s Future: Back to Basics

By Economist

This is the final stage of Steadfast Jazz 2013, NATO’s biggest live-fire exercise since 2006.

NATO Helps Provide Relief to Typhoon Ravaged Philippines

By NATO

An Ilyushin ll-76 transport plane from NATO’s Strategic Airlift Interim Solution (SALIS) consortium took off from Billund, Denmark on Monday (11 November 2013) carrying humanitarian relief supplies bound for Tacloban City in the Philippines

NATO Approves Turkey’s Request to Extend Deployment of Patriot Missiles

By Adrian Croft and Tulay Karadeniz, Reuters

NATO allies backed keeping Patriot missiles in Turkey on Wednesday, agreeing with Ankara that threats from the civil war in Syria remained serious, an alliance official said.

How the US Should Strengthen Security Cooperation with the Baltic Republics

By Luke Coffey, Heritage Foundation

There is ample room for deeper relations between the U.S. and the Baltic states, particularly in joint military training and defense procurement.

Is Anyone Home at Either End of Pennsylvania Avenue?

By Harlan Ullman

Two of America’s most vital interests are represented and colocated in Brussels, Belgium. The European Union is one. And NATO is the other. NATO is by far history’s most successful military alliance that, Afghanistan aside, has won every war it has waged, notably presiding over the demise of the Soviet Union nearly a quarter of […]

Turkey Asks NATO to Extend Patriot Deployments

By DENİZ ARSLAN, Today's Zaman

Turkey has asked NATO to extend for another year the deployment of Patriot missile batteries sent to Turkey by NATO countries after Ankara requested the Patriots last year to fend off a Syrian attack, according to a Turkish Foreign Ministry official.

Future NATO: Deterrence and Collective Defense

On November 12, the Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security hosted a conference on NATO’s Deterrence and Collective Defense in partnership with the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies.

Baltic States Targets of Cyber Incidents During NATO Exercise Steadfast Jazz

By Piret Pernik, RKK/ICDS

The recent cyber incidents that took place in the Baltic countries and Ukraine during the NATO military exercise Steadfast Jazz (held in Poland and the Baltic States on November 2-9) provide a good opportunity to examine relationships between hacktivists, government-controlled media