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PM Mark Rutte visits Patriot missiles at NATO airbase at Incirlik

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Oct 17, 2013

Dutch Prime Minister Visits Patriot Units Deployed in Turkey

By Hurriyet Daily News

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte visited NATO’s İncirlik airbase in the southern Turkish province of Adana, where Patriot units sent by the Dutch army have been stationed since January.

Missile Defense
Security & Defense
Steadfast Jazz is designed to "reassure" and "deter"

NATOSource

Oct 17, 2013

Does Steadfast Jazz Reveal How NATO Members Will Respond to Crisis in Central Europe?

By Andrew Rettman, EUobserver

Nato is to hold large-scale war games on Russia’s border a couple of weeks before the EU, at an event in Lithuania, plans to take away a former Soviet jewel: Ukraine.

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Security force team member for Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Farah

NATOSource

Oct 17, 2013

Has NATO’s ISAF Mission in Afghanistan Failed?

By Deutsche Welle

Some argue that accomplishments such as the killing of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the denial of Afghanistan as a safe haven for his terrorist network by toppling the Taliban regime are enough to regard the mission as a success.

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Finland sending two experts to NATO's CCDCOE

NATOSource

Oct 15, 2013

Finland to Join NATO’s Cyber Defense Center

By CCDCOE and ERR

From NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence:  Finnish Defence Minister Carl Haglund announced that Finland would like to become a Contributing Partner at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence

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NATO
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, October 11, 2013

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Oct 15, 2013

NATO Secretary General: ‘Defense Matters’

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

[W]e must shift the argument from the cost of defence to the cost of no defence.

NATO
Security & Defense
The head of Turkey's Undersecretariat for Defense Procuremen Murad Bayar

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Oct 15, 2013

Chinese Air Defenses in Turkey a ‘Virus’ for NATO

By Burak Bekdil, Hurriyet

Defense officials from NATO member states have described any potential Turkish effort to integrate China-made long-range air and anti-missile defense system into NATO’s overall air defense architecture as a “virus” within the allied system and a “possibly most futile effort.”

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Meeting of NATO Defense Ministers, October 14, 2010

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Oct 11, 2013

Should NATO’s Article 5 Only Protect Allies that Bear Fair Part of Defense Burden?

By Andrew Roberts, Hoover Institution

“Britannia’s 19 Ships Can’t Rule a Single Wave” was a recent headline in London’s Sunday Times.

France
Germany
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, October 10, 2013

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Oct 11, 2013

Rasmussen Confirms Georgia is Joining NATO Response Force in 2015

By Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO

Georgia, has offered to join the Response Force in the future, and been accepted.

NATO
NATO Partnerships
President of Finland Sauli Niinisto and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Nov. 14, 2012

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Oct 10, 2013

The Case for Finland to Join NATO

By Pauli Järvenpää, ICDS

[A]s far as the Finnish president is concerned, Finland now enjoys the best of all possible worlds: it is satisfied with the present level of cooperation with NATO

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, October 10, 2013

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Oct 10, 2013

Zeidan Kidnapping Highlights 5 Month Delay in NATO-Libya Security Agreement

By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes

The reported abduction of Libya’s prime minster early Thursday has exposed the shortcomings in the country’s security sector

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