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NATO membership cannot "replace a strong national defence capability"

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Aug 27, 2013

President of Finland: NATO Membership no Substitute for Strong National Defense

By YLE

President Sauli Niinistö told Finland’s diplomatic corps that the country’s current relationship with NATO had served its interests.

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Security & Defense
Meeting of the North Atlantic Council at NATO headquarters, June 4, 2013

NATOSource

Aug 27, 2013

Report: NATO Planning Emergency Meeting on Syria on Thursday

By ITAR-TASS

NATO is planning an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Syria in the wake of the chemical attack in suburban Damascus on August 21. According to the available information, the meeting might take place on August 29, a well-informed diplomatic source told Itar-Tass.

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Security & Defense
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

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Aug 26, 2013

Syria: Russia Dooms Hopes of UN Security Council Resolution

By Raf Sanchez and Roland Oliphant, Telegraph

As the US, Britain and France edged closer to approving strikes in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons, the Kremlin said that the West was moving down “a very dangerous path.”

France
International Organizations

New Atlanticist

Aug 26, 2013

What Is China’s Endgame?

By Robert A. Manning and James J. Przystup

Hugh White’s recent post appears to question the premise of my recent East Asia Forum piece arguing that counterbalancing China is not containment, implying that it is a distinction without a difference. He argues that the US strategic goal in Asia is to maintain its primacy, something that China’s rise is overtaking. It is the […]

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Indo-Pacific
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, February 2012

NATOSource

Aug 26, 2013

Turkey Readies for Syria Intervention with NATO-Backed Coalition

By Today's Zaman

As speculation on whether or not chemical gas was used in a recent attack in Syria — killing more than 1,000 and injuring many more in Damascus — rang alarm bells globally, Ankara, along with a NATO-backed international coalition, has started to ready itself against a possible intervention in Syria.

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Security & Defense
Meeting of the North Atlantic Council

NATOSource

Aug 26, 2013

NATO Members Could Act Against Syria Without UN Mandate

By Ian Traynor, Guardian

Barack Obama is unlikely to have much trouble mustering a Nato coalition of the willing if Washington opts for military intervention in Syria in response to the alleged chemical weapons atrocities by the Assad regime.

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Germany
USAF Gen. Philip Breedlove with Turkish Brig. Gen. Serdar Gulbas

NATOSource

Aug 23, 2013

SACEUR: Budget Cuts Already Have ‘Significant Impact’ on US Forces in Europe

By Andrew Tilghman, Military Times

Excerpt from interview by SACEUR and EUCOM commander Gen. Philip Breedlove with Military Times

Europe & Eurasia
NATO

New Atlanticist

Aug 22, 2013

No Easy Fixes for NATO

By Harlan Ullman

To paraphrase Shakespeare: Alas poor NATO. We knew it well.

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Security & Defense
ISAF spokesman Gen. Heinz Feldmann

NATOSource

Aug 22, 2013

NATO has Exited Roughly 90 Percent of its Bases in Afghanistan

By Pajhwok Afghan News

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Tuesday said foreign soldiers had exited more than 700 military bases ahead of their withdrawal from the country in 2014.

Afghanistan
NATO
Russian President Vladimir Putin

NATOSource

Aug 22, 2013

Russian Military Creating Cyber Warfare Branch

By RIA Novosti

A separate branch dedicated to cyber warfare is being created in the Russian Armed Forces as the Internet could become a new “theater of war” in the near future, a senior Russian military R&D official said.

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Russia

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