Sommet de Chicago 2012 - OTAN - NATO. International : Otan : la dernière flèche de Robert Gates. Blunt Warning From Gates Reveals NATO Strains. 10 NATO Countries Want More Transparency for Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons » FAS Strategic Security Blog. .
By Hans M. Kristensen Four NATO countries supported by six others have proposed a series of steps that NATO and Russia should take to increase transparency of U.S. and Russian non-strategic nuclear weapons. The steps are included in a so-called “non-paper” that Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Poland jointly submitted at the NATO Foreign Affairs Minister meeting in Berlin on 14 April. Six other NATO allies – Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Iceland, Luxemburg and Slovenia – also supported the paper. Pavel Podvig: Good that Rasmussen is opt... A strategist abroad: NATO meets some bloggers « Thinking Strategically. The figure used by the NATO official was 70%; the organisation had found that it was mentioned by social media more than on mainstream news sites, and blogs made up 70% of those references.
I believe it was that figure which spurred NATO into engaging with the blogosphere, and they hosted a conference last week with prominent bloggers from Germany and the United Kingdom. We talked to fairly senior people and the discussions were frank, as everything was off the record. This meant no recording, of course, and few notes, so it would be difficult to recount the day in full. I thought I’d list my highlights, however. We had five seminars with different officials and Afghanistan dominated discussion in most. I would like to thank Alison Smith and her German counterpart for doing such an excellent job chaperoning us all; and a shout-out to Dave Clemente of Chatham House, Mass Fiore from Kings of War, Saqeb Mueen of RUSI and Lauren Williamson of UK Defence Forum for such good company.
Global Security Newswire - Russia, NATO Remain at Odds Over Missile Shield. PrintShareEmailTwitterFacebookLinkedIn Russian and NATO military officials failed to make headway in a meeting yesterday in resolving their differing views on the establishment of a joint European missile shield, Agence France-Presse reported (see GSN, Jan. 25).
While the alliance has called for two separate but coordinated entities that would exchange data on missile threats, Moscow favors a combined "sectoral" program in which each side would have responsibility for eliminating incoming missiles in a specific physical area. Russian envoy Dmitry Rogozin told journalists that NATO's aspirations for the missile defense system "could not be called cooperation. It's not even a marriage of convenience. Global Security Newswire - Russia Wants Shared Missile Defense System With NATO. PrintShareEmailTwitterFacebookLinkedIn Russia's ambassador to NATO yesterday voiced his approval with initial missile defense talks and said the two former Cold War foes could work together on a unified European shield, Interfax reported (see GSN, Dec. 7).
"I am satisfied with the way the Russian delegation has performed, I am satisfied with its proactive position at the first meeting with our NATO partners," Russian envoy Dmitry Rogozin said following the experts' meeting. Reader riposte: More on NATO in Asia. Cable Viewer.
Les Etats-Unis se retirent, les Européens doivent prendre leur sécurité en main, dit Stubb. Le faux-pas tchèque à propos de l'offensive israélienne... Il ne s'agit pas d'amateurisme, ou d'un faux pas.
Sur un sujet aussi clivant en Europe que les relations entre Palestiniens et Israëliens, au moment où une offensive terrestre israelienne est en cours et que les morts se comptent par centaines, quand le Premier ministre de l'Etat qui assure la présidence de l'Union européenne, par porte-parole interposé, assène que l'opération israêlienne sur Gaza est une opération "défensive" (1), il commet une sérieuse erreur. Chaque pays européen a une vision bien précise du conflit israélo-palestinien. Et la République tchèque a, en la matière, liberté d'affirmer ses options politiques (même si la réalité sur le terrain peut sembler différente). Mais le faire au nom de l'UE est une triple erreur : de principe, de stratégie, de goût. La première erreur est de principe : porter un tel propos publiquement en tant que présidence européenne.
La seconde erreur, plus profonde, est stratégique : affirmer cela à la veille d'une visite dans la région. Les Roumains hésitent (un peu) sur leur futur avion, F16 ou Grip. Par Nicolas Gros-Verheyde - Publié dans : Marchés de défense - Industrie Mercredi 24 septembre 3 24 /09 /Sep 18:30 La Roumanie va devoir remplacer ses bons vieux Mig 21, dont nous avons pu voir un exemplaire lors du dernier défilé du 14 juillet.
Les 48 avions de fabrication soviétique ont commencé à être retirés du service. Et le gouvernement a mis 4,5 milliards d'euros sur la table pour les remplacer. Le Conseil Suprême de Défense du Pays (CSAT) doit se prononcer, prochainement. I.H.T. Op-Ed Contributor - NATO Needs a Missile Defense. Get rid of tactical nuclear weapons, Nato leaders told. Betrayer and Betrayed: New Documents Reveal Truth on NATO's 'Most Damaging' Spy - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. Everyone thought Hermann Simm deserved to be honored.
It was Monday, Feb. 6, 2006, and he was dressed in his best suit to attend the day's event. He had been invited to Estonia's presidential palace to accept the "Order of the White Star" for his "service to the Estonian nation. " It was an ironic choice. It wasn't the only medal Simm received for his services that year.
The other honor was one that he could only see on his computer screen, supposedly so as to not jeopardize his cover. Four years on, Simm has now reached the late phase of his career. This is the same man whom NATO, in a classified 141-page report, has recognized as the spy who was "most damaging in Alliance history. " 28 NATO Countries Sharing Secrets According to the classified NATO report, the master spy also "compromised a wide range of NATO intelligence reports and analyses," including ones related to fighting terrorism, secret military plans and counterespionage. Of course, Simm was not the only spy in NATO's past. L'OTAN : quelles marges de manoeuvre pour quelle légitimité. Home Page Toutes les rubriques La question du jour Observatoire des élections 2012 Observatoire des mutations politiques dans le monde arabe Vidéo d’actu Analyse du jour Brèves.
Réintégration de la France à l'OTAN, perte d'indépenda. Russian spy in Nato could have passed on missile defence and cyb. Un contrat pérénissant la présence de l'OTAN à Bruxelles. Feux de forêts en Israël : le jeu stupide de l’OTAN. Nicolas Gros-Verheyde / Défense (doctrine politique) / (crédit : service d'incendie israélien) (opinion) Dans la réponse internationale face aux incendies en Israël, un fait est passé relativement inaperçu, la tentative de l’OTAN d’entrer dans le jeu et de concurrencer l’initiative européenne.
Un jeu idiot qui repose, malheureusement, sur une volonté affirmée de quelques de ses membres de concurrencer l’Union européenne sur le terrain civil. The NATO Monitor.