The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Jonathan Masters, Council on Foreign Relations Although NATO was originally founded to prevent Soviet Union aggression, the present day alliance now addresses a broad spectrum of global threats. Masters not only explains this transition, but also the decision making components and structure that led to interventions including Afghanistan and […]
So I thought we could start with a little bit of history about NATO and form your perspective, what you would highlight some of the Most important historical achievements of the alliance. I think that the great achievement is the fact that NATO prevented the cold war from getting hard. And after the end of […]
Anders Fogh Rasmussen So I thought we could start with a little bit of history about NATO and form your perspective, what you would highlight some of the Most important historical achievements of the alliance. I think that the great achievement is the fact that NATO prevented the cold war from getting hard. And after […]
Libya has been called a “model intervention.” Could you tell us more about the mission and what made it such? I think first and foremost it showed us that NATO can work and work fast. We had a UN Security Council resolution, the alliance – 28 nations, as well as Arab partners and European partners […]
How was the military restructured and why? Well, if you think about it, when I came into the Pentagon in 2001, we had moved into the 21st century but we’d also moved into the information age. And Governor Bush, running for president, had given a speech or two at the Citadel to point out the […]
Let’s start with intervention. That’s one of the topics we’re looking at for next season. When do we intervene? When do we not intervene? I think most people would see Libya as a successful example of intervention. Do you agree with that? And if so, what elements made it so? Well, I think that’s a […]
Raison d’etat is the French phrase for a country’s national interest. Literally translated, “reason of the State,” this term is often used to describe a country’s military, economic or cultural goals. Baltic states are the territories east of the Baltic Sea that gained independence from Russia following World War II. Usually, the countries included in […]
NATO has an operating budget of 200 billion euros (£171 billion) a year, but is estimated to be running several hundred million euros in the red. Israel was the first non-European countries to be offered membership in NATO. They figured since they had a common enemy–the jihadists. However, even after many talks, the two proposed […]
