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Jan 22, 2014

Pavel Quoted on US Special Forces Expansion

By Barry Pavel

Atlantic Council Vice President and Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel discusses US special forces operations with Deutsche Welle. Read the full article here. Read the full article here.

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RAF Typhoon

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Jan 22, 2014

NATO Project May Provide Allied Air Forces with ‘Plug and Play’ Precision Munitions

By Julan Hale, Defense News

Development of a NATO standard allowing aircraft from different nations to use precision-guided munitions (PGMs) from various sources and countries could reach a draft memorandum of understanding this year.

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US-EU Summit, November 20, 2010

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Jan 21, 2014

Obama to Participate in US-EU Summit and Meet with NATO Secretary General

By White House

As part of the United States’ ongoing consultations with our allies and partners in Europe and beyond, President Obama will travel to the Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy in March 2014.

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Prime Minister David Cameron visiting British troops in Afghanistan

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Jan 16, 2014

UK Prime Minister Says Robert Gates ‘Wrong’ About British Defense

By Telegraph and BBC

From Raf Sanchez, Telegraph:  David Cameron has sharply rejected a claim by the former US defence secretary that the government’s military cuts will prevent Britain from being a “full partner” with America.

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Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates

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Jan 16, 2014

Defense Cuts Threaten US-UK Partnership, Says Robert Gates

By James Edgar, Telegraph

Defence cuts are limiting Britain’s capacity to be “full partner” with America, a former US defence secretary has said.

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Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland

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Jan 16, 2014

State Department: Implications of the Crisis in Ukraine

By Victoria Nuland, Department of State

Why does the United States have an interest in how this turns out? Because these same principles and values are the cornerstone of all free democracies, and America supports them in every country on the planet.

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Canadian soldiers participating in NATO Exercise Cold Response 2012

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Jan 15, 2014

Between A Rock and a Cold Place? NATO and the Arctic

By Page Wilson

At a press conference marking the visit of the North Atlantic Council to Norway in May, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced that “at this present time, NATO has no intention of raising its presence and activities in the High North.”

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USS Connecticut in Arctic Ocean

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Jan 15, 2014

Arctic Passage Opens Challenges for US Military

By Julian E. Barnes, Wall Street Journal

The 40-year-old Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star returned to the Arctic Ocean this summer after seven years in semiretirement, charging into a thinning polar ice sheet that U.S. defense officials predict will give way to new commercial waterways and a resource-rich frontier by midcentury.

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Dwight Eisenhower was NATO's 1st Supreme Commander, SACEUR

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Jan 13, 2014

New Films About NATO’s First Military Commander, Dwight Eisenhower

By Allied Command Operations, NATO

The Eisenhower Memorial Commission has launched the second in a series of seven Pivotal Moment films on the Dwight D. Eisenhower E-Memorial.

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President Bill Clinton at the 1994 NATO Summit

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Jan 13, 2014

US Honors Anniversary of PfP and Pledges to ‘Strengthen and Deepen’ NATO’s Partnerships

By Jen Psaki, Department of State

On January 11, 1994, the United States and the other allied nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) created the Partnership for Peace. Today marks its twentieth anniversary.

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