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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...

NATO missile defense is no threat to Russia

The facts and physics demonstrate that NATO's Ballistic Missile Defense system cannot pose any...

Has NATO's ISAF mission in Afghanistan failed?

The primary objective of the ISAF mission has been to enable the Afghan government to provide...

As They Leave Afghanistan, Britons Ask, ‘Why?’

After the lives lost and the exhausted treasure, what was it all for? That question is being asked...

2014 NATO Summit: Laying the Groundwork Now

This will be a particularly important summit. The 2014 NATO summit will be the last summit before...

Syria is not Kosovo

The United States should respond militarily to Mr. Assad’s use of chemical weapons to murder his...

How France went from loner to leader on European defence policy

Not that long ago, when it came to global security issues, France often went its own way, taking no...

Syria vs. Kosovo

Once again, the United States appears poised to strike with its military forces in the Middle East,...

More answers needed on Syria

Despite the pumped-up threats and quickening military preparations, President Obama has yet to make...

Ankara sees no NATO role in Syria

Ankara believes it’s nearly impossible to let NATO adopt a decision on Syria due this division...

No easy fixes for NATO

The debate that persists among the alliance's 28 members is between Article V and crisis...

Why West? The Georgian perspective

In 1783 Georgia and Russia signed the so-called Treaty of Georgievsk, according to which Georgia...

East European defence: Flexing its muscles

The fact that predatory neighbours twice crushed the life out of Poland, and that its allies had no...

NATO’s 'neutral' European partners: valuable contributors or free riders?

When the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact collapsed, five European states – Austria, Sweden,...

NATO risks unity over emerging technologies divide

At present, the world is witnessing an unprecedented period of scientific and technological...