US EditionCanada Hosts Pre-NATO Rearmament Affirmation Confab
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Canada hosts pre-NATO rearmament affirmation confab
At CANSEC, North America’s largest arms trade show last week, former NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson invoked the spirit of Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 speech: “Only by preparing for war will we be able to protect peace.” Robertson described an era that saw the formation of independent post-Soviet states in Eastern Europe and the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997 with Russia’s first President Boris Yeltsin that thawed relations after the Co…
NATO countries agree on strength target NATO countries reached an agreement on the so-called strength target on Thursday afternoon. The target applies to defense capabilities in the air, on land and at sea. Exactly which capabilities each country must provide are secret. NATO chief Mark Rutte has previously highlighted the need for better air defense and larger armies. For Norway, naval defense will probably be an important part of the strength…
NATO defense ministers agreed on new strength targets for the alliance at a meeting on Thursday.
NATO defense ministers on Thursday approved arms and military equipment procurement targets to improve defense in Europe, the Arctic region and the Atlantic Ocean.
NATO alliance about to undergo ‘historic’ change
Speaking ahead of what he called a “historic day”, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Allies are poised to agree sweeping new military capability targets that will drive a major increase in defence spending across the Alliance. Addressing myself and other jounalists at NATO Headquarters on Thursday morning, Rutte declared, “Today is really key, because we will decide on the capability targets, and this is an important building block to decid…
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