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Over One Hundred Czech and Slovak Intellectuals Call for US and Europe to Stop Appeasing Russia

New Atlanticist
Jul 5, 2024

Dispatch from Warsaw: Poland’s military and economic rise is coming just in time, as the West wobbles

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Daniel Fried

Its rise at home and its strategic clarity about Russia have placed Poland in the first rank of European powers for the first time in centuries.

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Over One Hundred Czech and Slovak Intellectuals Call for US and Europe to Stop Appeasing Russia

EnergySource
Apr 3, 2024

Central and Eastern Europe needs to rethink its approach to energy security

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Pawel Czyzak and Nolan Theisen

The upcoming Three Seas Initiative Summit is an opportune time for Central and Eastern European leaders to pivot toward clean, affordable, and local renewables to build energy security.

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Over One Hundred Czech and Slovak Intellectuals Call for US and Europe to Stop Appeasing Russia

New Atlanticist
Mar 6, 2024

NATO enlargement at twenty-five: How we got there and what it achieved

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Jerzy Koźmiński and Daniel Fried

Two and a half decades after Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic joined NATO, their membership continues to protect them from Russian aggression.

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Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel, and Francois Hollande, Feb. 11, 2015

NATOSource

Mar 17, 2015

Over One Hundred Czech and Slovak Intellectuals Call for US and Europe to Stop Appeasing Russia

By Support-Ukraine.Org

There is War in Europe: Let’s not Repeat the Munich Betrayal of 1938.

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Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama, Sept. 4, 2014

NATOSource

Feb 26, 2015

Report: Six European Members of NATO Will Cut Defense Spending and Break Agreement Made at Wales Summit

By Denitsa Raynova & Ian Kearns, ELN

Preliminary reports from fourteen countries examined for fiscal year 2015 suggest that only one (Estonia) will spend 2% of GDP on defence.

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Defense Industrialist

Feb 21, 2015

Architecting Poland’s New Tank Project

By James Hasik

Every morning’s news from Ukraine reminds us of the continued relevance of heavy armor on modern battlefields. Russian T-72s aren’t the most modern tanks, but they’re effective enough against an underprepared enemy. What’s more alarming is what’s under development to the east—Uralvagonzavod’s T-14 Armata project. In response, Poland’s Ministry of Defense is aiming to replace […]

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French tank, July 14, 2012

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Jan 30, 2015

France Sending Tanks To Poland

By Lorne Cook, AP

France is pledging tanks and armored vehicles to bolster NATO forces in Poland, where leaders are increasingly uneasy about Russia.

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US Abrams tanks at Grafenwöhr, Germany

NATOSource

Jan 27, 2015

US Examining Sites in Eastern Europe for Pre-Positioning 220 Armored Vehicles

By John Vandiver and Michael Darnell, Stars and Stripes

U.S. Army Europe will soon dispatch a survey team to eastern Europe to scout locations for tanks and other military hardware as part of a broader effort to bolster the U.S. military presence in a region rattled by Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, the Army’s top commander in Europe said Friday.

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Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak, Oct. 14, 2014

NATOSource

Jan 8, 2015

Poland to Seek NATO Response to Russia’s Military Exercises

By Wiktor Szary and Pawel Sobczak, Reuters

Poland expects the NATO alliance to step up its military exercises around the Baltic Sea after a flurry of activity by Russian warships and jet fighters in the area last month, Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak told Reuters in an interview.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin visits anti-submarine ship Vice Admiral Kulakov, Sept. 23, 2014

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Dec 17, 2014

Putin Orders Snap Military Drills on NATO Border

By Damien Sharkov, Newsweek

Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered snap military drills for Russian armed forces in the Baltic region to test Russia’s “battle-readiness”, a ministry of defence spokesperson told Russian news agency Interfax today.

Missile Defense Northern Europe
Defense ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, Dec. 12, 2014

NATOSource

Dec 12, 2014

Baltic and Polish Defense Ministers Agree on Joint Response to Deter Russia

By Latvian Ministry of Defense

On 11–12 December the Baltic and Polish Defence Ministers at a meeting in in Cesis (Latvia) agreed on joint response to deter Russia in the region.

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Polish soldiers in Ghazni, April 29, 2011

NATOSource

Dec 11, 2014

How the mission in Afghanistan changed the Polish Army

By Jacek Mutszak, Defence Global

Afghanistan is a challenge that NATO has struggled with for over twelve years. Poland was one of the member countries that sent its army there. It was the biggest test for the Polish Army since the end of World War II.

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In the News

Dec 11, 2014

Gramer: Political Appointees Are a New Danger to US Interests in Europe

By Robbie Gramer

Brent Scowcroft Center Assistant Director Robbie Gramer writes for the Huffington Post on corruption in Hungary and the recent appointment there of Colleen Bell as ambassador: 

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