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Big ideas for NATO’s new mission in Iraq

Sharing the burden of keeping down the Islamic State makes sense. But U.S. and NATO leaders should...

The NATO Parliamentary Assembly as an antidote to public disengagement from defence

NATO had spent too much time focusing on the military potential of Article 5 and forgotten the...

Trump does the NATO two-step

President Trump’s remarks about Iran on Wednesday weren’t exactly a model of clarity. The president...

Only a China-Russia alliance could revive a ‘brain-dead’ Nato

Nato’s fatal problem is it has no real enemy, with Russia a spent force and terrorism a vaguely...

NATO stuck between Trump and Macron

First it was the U.S., already under the junior President George Bush and well before President...

Nato needs to find its own way free of any manipulation by US

With the 29-member organisation struggling to find purpose, it bent to American pressure at its...

Why the ‘Afghanistan Papers’ matter

On Monday, the Washington Post published what it calls a “secret history” of the U.S. war in...

Despite Turkey’s drift from the West, Nato is still Ankara’s best security guarantor

From purchasing Russian S-400s to Turkey’s role in a scheme to circumvent sanctions on Iran, Turkey...

NATO is full of freeloaders. But it’s how we defend the free world.

With the conclusion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 70th anniversary summit in London,...

A challenge from China could be just the thing to pull NATO together

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is looking more disorganized than ever, but a major Pacific...

Hirntote Nato? Europa kann auf die Amerikaner nicht verzichten

Frankreichs Präsident bescheinigt der Nato den «Hirntod» und ruft zur strategischen Autonomie...

NATO isn’t dead, but it’s ailing

NATO is brain-dead. So said French President Emmanuel Macron in an interview published last week....

Macronov nápad môže oslabiť bezpečnosť Európy

V obrane a stratégii je dôvera kľúčová. Zmluvy, dohody a spojenectvá fungujú na základe dôvery. Bez...

NATO has bigger problems than Donald Trump

Less than a month out from the NATO allied leaders’ summit in London, the transatlantic alliance is...

Macron’s grenade

Emmanuel Macron has frequently called for Europe to build up its defence capacity and forge an...

Emmanuel Macron is right: NATO is over

On the eve of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and a scant month before NATO...

NATO can save the Kurds and make the Turks happy

Turkey is in NATO, so why not use the alliance to forge peace along its Syrian border?

Military support, canned pork and an air base: Here’s why Denmark has been an important U.S. ally

President Trump canceled a visit to Denmark scheduled for next month after Danish Prime Minister...

Antiques road show: The real state of the U.S. military

The wars of the future may depend not so much on the kinds of things you can put on parade, but on...

Pushing Turkey out of NATO is a terrible idea

After several years of verbal jousting with the U.S., Turkey last week accepted an initial delivery...

NATO needs a China policy

The EU and the United States have so far adopted different approaches to China’s growing global...

Into Putin’s arms: How a failed coup turned Turkey into NATO’s biggest headache

Arrival of Russian S-400 missile defense system probably won’t signal the end of Turkey’s military...

Russia’s attacks on democratic justice systems

Russia is engaged in a determined assault on Western democracies and their institutions. At its...

What happens if America leaves NATO? Russia wins

What would happen if the United States left NATO? The International Institute of Strategic Studies...

NATO’s expansion will help stability, despite concerns about Russia

Just because a country was once occupied by the Soviet Union or under the domination of the Russian...

A bigger NATO has been a better NATO

After winning the Cold War, America might have pulled out and gone home. But just as NATO expansion...

Russia has won the information war in Turkey

The Kremlin doesn’t even need fake news to push its agenda on Turkish social media. Because...

NATO countries need to stop China from winning the 5G race

NATO — a collection of 29 distinct nations, each with its own approach to technological development...

Energy conjoins NATO, 70 years later

Nuclear weapons and oil were the concrete commodities that undergirded NATO’s creation. The...

Turkey and allies need to decouple NATO and the US

It is unfortunate that at a time when NATO is celebrating its 70st anniversary, Turkey’s membership...

Nostalgia is a national security threat

Within the U.S. foreign-policy community, the Cold War is particularly notable for being compressed...

Assessing NATO’s Value

The United States was the driving proponent of NATO’s creation in 1949 and has been the...

Nato in the age of Putin and Trump

The organisation, which was originally meant to last ten years, celebrates its 70th anniversary...

To strengthen NATO, Congress must help end its reliance on Russian equipment

Eastern NATO members - the very ones on the front lines of potential hostilities with Russia - rely...

Time for NATO to talk about China

As NATO allies prepare to gather in Washington on April 4 to celebrate the alliance’s seventieth...

Cracks in the Transatlantic family show in Munich

Europeans seem not to understand that power is shifting away from them. Several European leaders...