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Feb 21, 2015

Seip: Accepting the Invitation

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Mark Seip</span>

Scowcroft Center Navy Senior Fellow Mark Seip writes for foreign language newspaper the Helsinki Times on Finland participating in air exercises with the United States:

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dec. 8, 2014

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Feb 19, 2015

Putin a Threat to Baltic States, Western Officials Say

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Andrew Osborn, Reuters</span>

Senior Western officials accused Russia on Thursday of redrawing the map of Europe by force and posing a threat to the Baltic states.

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British Defense Minister Michael Fallon, Aug. 16, 2014

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Feb 19, 2015

Putin Will Target Baltic Republics Next, UK Defense Minister Warns

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Ben Farmer, Telegraph</span>

There is a “real and present danger” that Vladimir Putin will launch a campaign of undercover attacks to destabilise the Baltic states on Nato’s eastern flank, the Defence Secretary has warned.

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German soldiers training for mission in Kosovo, Jan. 28, 2014

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Feb 19, 2015

German Soldiers Used Broomsticks Instead of Guns During NATO Exercise

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Telegraph, Washington Post, and the Local (Germany)</span>

From Justin Huggler, Telegraph:  German soldiers used broomsticks painted black instead of guns during a joint Nato exercise last year due to severe equipment shortages, it has emerged.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, Nov. 22, 2013

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Feb 5, 2015

Putin Could Attack Baltic States Warns Former NATO Chief

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph</span>

Vladimir Putin has dangerous ambitions beyond Ukraine and aims to test Western resolve in the Baltic states, the former head of Nato has warned.

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Jan 30, 2015

Ukraine Needs Support Now, Latvian Foreign Minister Says

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Ashish Kumar Sen</span>

Rinkēvičs cites urgent need for backing on territorial integrity, economy Ukraine requires strong support for its territorial integrity and economy well before an Eastern Partnership summit in Riga in May, according to Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs. Describing Ukraine as the “biggest challenge,” Rinkēvičs said, “we need to address some issues now, in January, in […]

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US Abrams tanks at Grafenwöhr, Germany

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Jan 27, 2015

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

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >John Vandiver and Michael Darnell, Stars and Stripes</span>

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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Jan 23, 2015

US Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken to Address Atlantic Council Flagship Conference on Europe’s East

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Atlantic Council</span>

United States Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken will address the Atlantic Council’s flagship conference on January 30 aimed at mobilizing the transatlantic community around an effective strategy for Europe’s East. For his first formal speech since being sworn in as Deputy Secretary of State, he will deliver on-the-record remarks which will be followed by […]

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Colonel Aivar Jaeski

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Jan 22, 2015

NATO Colonel Sheds Light on Russia ‘Psy-Ops’

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Valentina Pop, euobserver</span>

[Aivar] Jaeski [Deputy Director of the NATO Strategic Communications Center of Excellence in Latvia], who also oversaw Nato information operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, described Moscow’s campaign as “a psy-op”

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Russia-Belarus military exercise Zapad, Sept. 26, 2013

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Jan 16, 2015

Russia Could Soon Run Multiple Ukraine-Sized Operations: US General

By <span class="gta-embed--tax--expert gta-post-embed--tax--expert" >Adrian Croft, Reuters</span>

Russia is working to develop within a few years the capability to threaten several neighbors at once on the scale of its present operation in Ukraine, a senior American general said.

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