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Should Finland join NATO?

The prime minister of Finland, Jyrki Katainen of the National Coalition Party, made headlines...

Is an Asian NATO possible?

A future NATO-like organization in Asia seems more likely than a European NATO seemed at the end of...

NATO’s back in business, thanks to Russia’s threat to Ukraine

Back in 1993, during the earliest days of the Clinton Administration, Senator Richard Lugar of the...

Saving NATO with airpower

When the United States Air Force recently modified the definition of airpower to include air,...

Washington should not defend Ukraine or expand NATO: U.S. should shift responsibility for Europe's defense to Europe

In fact, alliances can encourage confrontation by emboldening weaker, sometimes irresponsible...

Lessons from Libya: How not to intervene

The top U.S. representatives to the transatlantic alliance declared that "NATO's operation in Libya...

Is NATO expansion to blame for Crimean crisis?

The West's relations with Russia are at an historic low. This comes after years of NATO's...

The NATO panic over Ukraine

Granted, the crisis in Ukraine is worrisome, Vladimir Putin's behavior is unpredictable, and the...

West must prepare for a long struggle with Russia

With Russian troops still massed near Ukraine’s borders, some in Washington are debating whether...

Russia’s aggression in Crimea brings NATO into renewed focus

Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. swept into Poland and the Baltic nations on Tuesday with a...

NATO’s strategic ace: Vladimir Putin

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) was on the road to irrelevance. The most successful...

Formally recognize Ukraine, prepare NATO troops

The strategy of the West regarding Russian aggression in Ukraine should be to complicate Vladimir...

How should U.S. and NATO respond to Russia over Ukraine?

Any discussion of U.S. tactics has to start with the realization that Russia holds most of the...

Ukraine crisis gives NATO, West no good options

With Western powers increasingly concluding Ukraine has lost Crimea to Russia, the U.S. and its...

The Ukraine crisis: John Kerry and Nato must calm down and back off

Ukrainian government's plea for Nato aid mark a dangerous escalation of a crisis that can easily be...

NATO needs to move now on Crimea

News reports indicate the Russian military has seized Crimea. This is a volatile, dangerous...

Ballistic missile defence is good enough for Europe, but not for us?

As a NATO member, Canada now officially endorses the logic, strategic utility and security...

NATO and Georgia: Seeking membership, getting partnership

At the NATO summit in South Wales in September, Georgia hopes for a number of positive signals from...

Finland and Nato

Nato's future is open and it is still unclear which direction the alliance will take steps towards....

How (not) to do business with NATO

In various tones of diplomatic language, Turkey’s western friends warned that Turkey’s defense...

Needed: A new NATO for the 21st century

The Afghan mission is about to end. Before it does, the next biannual summit convenes in Wales this...

NATO Secretary General's Annual Report for 2013

Investing in the right capabilities, maintaining connected forces and deepening and widening...

Fighting extremism on a broader level: Expand NATO’s influence and reach

With new terrorist factions rising across the Middle East, keeping NATO on the sidelines is a bad...

NATO: ready, robust and rebalanced?

NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen believes that the future of the Alliance depends on...

NATO after Rasmussen and the U.S. pivot to Asia

Most previous NATO bosses had been drawn from national defense ministries. The choice of Rasmussen,...

How hard is it to win hearts and minds in Afghanistan? Very hard.

Much stock has been placed in discerning Afghan attitudes toward their government and the Taliban...

The intelligence assessment is too pessimistic about Afghanistan

To be sure, there are numerous scenarios under which Afghanistan could falter or even fail in the...

Colombia looks to NATO and beyond in regional defense

In early 2013, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos proposed to establish closer military...

Britain, the EU and a parallel universe

EU summits increasingly have a curious quality to them. There is an official agenda, set out in...

Turkey flirts with Asian arms suppliers

When fighter aircraft from NATO-member Turkish and Chinese air forces conducted their first joint...

Why is China entering a nuclear security pact with Ukraine?

China promises unconditionally not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear...

The tide begins to turn on the EU's military ambitions

For the Eurocrats, military effectiveness was always secondary. The current High Representative,...

US weighs cost of letting Afghanistan go its own way

In January, when U.S. officials first raised the prospect of keeping no troops in Afghanistan after...

Ukraine halts eastward expansion of NATO

Russia's relations with the Western countries are troubled and dangerous in the Ukraine dispute,...

US-Afghanistan alliance will be more than shared interests

For Americans wary of one more military commitment, this new alliance may seem more entangling than...

NATO’s future: Back to basics

It bears on the big open question at NATO: what happens after combat operations in Afghanistan...