Tag: NATO

NATO to improve cyber defense in bid to boost alliance resilience (Defense News)

Sebastian Sprenger Senior NATO officials vowed to boost the alliance’s cyber defense capabilities at a conference on Thursday, tucking the efforts under the top-priority thrust...

USA/NATO/Russia/Ukraine – US commander warns NATO is ready to respond to aggression (Defense News)

Joe Gould Amid Russia’s massive troop buildup along its border with Ukraine, the top U.S. commander in Europe warned Thursday that NATO was prepared to...

Russia/Montenegro/NATO – Russian Influence in Montenegro Could Create a Threat for NATO’s Information Security (The Jamestown Foundation)

Kseniya Kirillova A scandal erupted in Montenegro at the end of March: the head of the Balkan country’s National Security Agency (ANB), Dejan Vuksic, was...

(NATO/China) NATO’s focus on China is too narrow (Defense News)

Hans Binnendijk At the recent NATO foreign ministers’ meeting, China was on the front burner. https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/commentary/2021/04/03/natos-focus-on-china-is-too-narrow/

(Defense/Latvia/NATO/5G) Could Latvia become NATO’s 5G military test hub? (Defense News)

Aaron Mehta Latvia is aiming to market itself as a hub for 5G military testing in Europe, with a successful technology test late last year...

(NATO/Russia) NATO jets intercept Russian warplanes during ‘unusual level of air activity’ (Euractiv)

NATO fighter jets scrambled 10 times on Monday (29 March), to shadow Russian bombers and fighters during an unusual peak of flights over the...

(USA/NATO) Blinken tells NATO allies they don’t need to choose US or China (Al Jazeera)

In speech, Blinken tells his European counterparts US won’t force allies into an ‘us-or-them’ choice on China. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/24/blinken-to-tell-nato-allies-they-dont-need-to-choose-us-or-china

(USA/NATO) Blinken pledges to ‘revitalise’ NATO, cooperation on Afghanistan (Al Jazeera)

On his first visit to NATO headquarters, US secretary of state says he will also warn Germany about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/23/blinken-pledges-to-revitalise-nato-discuss-afghanistan-drawdow

(USA/Europe/NATO) Biden Wants to Restore NATO. Macron Is Looking to Move On (Defense One)

Kevin Baron President Joe Biden came to office promising to renew the spirit of the Western alliances born after World War II. It’s his deliberate...

(Russia/NATO) Russian Aerospace Forces Journal Recommends Preventive Strike Against NATO (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel Felgenhauer Josep Borrell, the European Union’s high representative for foreign and security policy, visited Moscow in person last week (February 5)—still highly unusual during...

(NATO) New Ideas for NATO 2030 (Chatham House)

https://www.chathamhouse.org/events/all/members-event/new-ideas-nato-2030

(Europe/NATO) Minister: Detachment from NATO would widen divisions in the EU (Euractiv)

By Tiago Almeida https://www.euractiv.com/section/eu-council-presidency/news/minister-detachment-from-nato-would-widen-divisions-in-the-eu/

(NATO/Israel/South) NATO 2030 and the “South” (BESA Center)

By Dr. George N. Tzogopoulos https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/nato-2030-south/

(NATO/USA/New START/Russia) NATO welcomes US intention to extend New START with Russia (Xinhua, Global Times)

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Friday welcomed US President Joe Biden's newly announced intention to extend by five years a bilateral treaty...

(Open Skies Treaty/NATO/Russia) NATO open for transparency dialogue with Russia over its withdrawal from Open Skies Treaty (TASS)

NATO is ready for dialogue with Russia on military transparency and risk reduction within the Russia-NATO Council following Russia’s decision to withdraw from the...

NATO/ARCTIC/BLACK SEA REGION – NATO Facing Challenges From the Arctic to the Black Sea Region (LSE IDEAS)

LSE IDEAS, the New Strategy Center Bucharest (NSC) and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) host a one-day conference to provide a comprehensive...