Has NATO lost its will as well as its muscle?

George F. Will
5.9. 2014, Washington Post (USA)
If NATO’s meeting in Wales was, as one European defense intellectual said, a “credibility summit,” it was at most a semi-success. The decision to augment by around 4,000 an existing ­rapid-response force of around 13,000 is a far cry from Poland’s request that 10,000 NATO troops be stationed with heavy weapons in that country. Watching NATO flinch from this, Putin might reasonably conclude that NATO is ambivalent about Article 5 (an attack on any member will be considered an attack on all) and therefore wants its means of responding to remain some distance from where events might require a response.

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For all NATO’s words, Ukraine still faces Russia alone

Marcin Zaborowski, director, Polish Institute of International Affairs
9.9. 2014, CNN (USA)
NATO’s failure to send a clear signal to Russia by supporting Ukraine represents in itself a grave threat to the alliance’s Central East European members -- who may be next on the list of potential Russian targets.

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Which leader had a successful NATO summit?

Judy Dempsey
5.9. 2014, Carnegie Europe
Poland did not get what it wanted from the Wales summit. For several months, Poland, together with the Baltics, had wanted NATO countries to agree to deploy troops on the ground on a permanent basis. At one stage, Radek Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, had sought a battalion of 10,000 soldiers to be based in Poland. This was not to be: the big Western European countries and the United States opposed the idea for financial and political reasons.

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Finland to face dilemma after enhanced partnership with NATO

Juhani Niinisto
8.9. 2014, Xinhua (China)
Finnish decision makers have claimed that their country has not taken any step closer towards the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) despite the fact it has signed a protocol on hosting NATO troops last week at the NATO summit in Wales, UK.

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Turkey’s perspective on NATO summit outcomes

Selcuk Colakoglu
13.9. 2014, Eurasia Review
At the NATO Newport summit, Turkey had no major difficulties in general terms in agreeing with its allies on the approach that should be taken in response to the three critical crises in Ukraine, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. Now it is time to see how the agreed approach of the summit will be implemented.

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Jasný vzkaz z NATO

Marian Majer, analytik Institutu pro středoevropskou politiku
8.9. 2014, MF Dnes (tištěné vydání)
Summit NATO ve Walesu skončil podle očekávání. To je pro spojence dobrá zpráva. Přes množství rozporuplných reakcí jednotlivých států od začátku ukrajinské krize se nakonec podařilo dosáhnout kompromisu, který vysílá jasný signál. A to především směrem k Rusku, které znovu zřetelně slyšelo, že je Aliance nadále připravena chránit spojence za všech okolností, tedy že se mušketýrský princip, na kterém stojí od svého vzniku, neposunul ani o centimetr. Ale je vzkazem i všem těm, kterým dávalo NATO poslední měsíce možnost pochybovat o smyslu jeho existence a stejných hodnotových principech jeho členů.

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NATO alliance: the moment of truth?

Kurt Volker, Pavel Felgenhauer, Ivan Eland
5.9. 2014, Al-Jazeera (TV debate)
The NATO military alliance is facing a pivotal moment of truth, 65 years after it was founded. Leaders have been meeting in Newport in Wales to address an alarming array of new challenges. But will it mark a defining moment for the military alliance? Or a historic failure?