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Prime minister of Montenegro Igor Luksic and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, March 21, 2012

NATOSource

Aug 13, 2013

Montenegrins Divided on NATO Membership: Survey

By BIRN

Forty per cent of Montenegrins want the country to join NATO while 39 per cent are against membership of the Western military alliance, a survey has suggested.

NATO
Security & Defense
Estonia "will have to be well integrated and rehearsed to interact with NATO"

NATOSource

Aug 13, 2013

Russia-Georgia War: Lessons for Estonia

By Mart Laar, Postimees

Within days, five years will have passed from the Russian-Georgian war. Much is written about it, a movie has been made. Still, many a question remains unanswered.

Cybersecurity
NATO

NATOSource

Aug 13, 2013

Estonia: Russian Spy did not Know EU or NATO Secrets

By Andrew Reitman, EUobserver

An alleged Russian spy exposed in Estonia did not compromise EU or Nato secrets, Estonia’s intelligence chief has told EUobserver.

NATO
Russia

NATOSource

Aug 13, 2013

Estonian Intelligence Official Confesses to Spying for Russia

By Estonian Public Broadcasting

The Estonian Internal Security Service (KaPo) has detained one of its own former officials, Vladimir Veitman, whom the agency suspects of having gathered classified information for years on behalf of a Russian intelligence service.

NATO
Russia

New Atlanticist

Aug 13, 2013

Obama’s Red Lines

By Henry Johnson

President Obama’s tepid response to Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons illuminates how he might react to a decision by Iran to build nuclear weapons. In both cases, he has drawn red lines that are extremely costly to enforce.

Iran
Missile Defense
Commanders of Baltic States Land Forces

NATOSource

Aug 12, 2013

Baltic States Divided On Merging Armed Forces

By Jaroslaw Adamowski, Defense News

While budget cuts are jeopardizing acquisitions of new arms and equipment across Europe, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are intensifying their military cooperation in line with NATO’s “Smart Defense” policy and collaborating on joint arms purchases.

NATO
Security & Defense

Issue Brief

Aug 12, 2013

The Israeli experience in missile defense: Lessons for NATO

By Jean-Loup Samaan and Guillaume Lasconjarias

Jean-Loup Samaan and Guillaume Lasconjarias, research fellows at the NATO Defense College in Italy, outline in this issue brief for the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security what NATO can learn from the Israeli experience in missile defense. Samaan and Lasconjarias identify five domains where Israel’s missile defense experience may offer both helpful lessons and […]

Israel
Missile Defense

Event Recap

Aug 12, 2013

Transition Strategy Seminar on NATO’s Challenges

On August 13, the Atlantic Council hosted an off-the-record transition seminar for Ambassador Douglas E. Lute, the newly appointed US permanent representative to NATO.

NATO
Security & Defense

New Atlanticist

Aug 8, 2013

All-American Agenda: A Financially Realistic Defense

By Harlan Ullman

Perhaps the best thing that happened to the United States last week was Congress abandoning Washington for a 5-week break deferring all the major issues and problems. Will anything improve when Congress returns? The answer isn’t reassuring.

Economy & Business
National Security

New Atlanticist

Aug 5, 2013

John Kerry’s Six-Month Report Card

By R. Nicholas Burns

Until a few weeks ago, a small army of critics and armchair quarterbacks took aim at Secretary of State John Kerry’s first months in office in roughly similar fashion — too much globe-trotting, too many meetings, and too singular a focus on the lost cause of diplomacy — the 65-year search for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement. […]

Iran
National Security

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