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NATO Secretary General sounds notes of caution for alliance
Commentary
Today Jens Stoltenberg became the first NATO Secretary General to address a joint session of Congress, where he touted the alliance's success and emphasized the continuing nee...
By Richard Fontaine
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Trump's Tough Talk On German Defense Spending Is Straining A Decades-Long Friendship
Podcast
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization turns 70, Germany's relatively low defense spending is angering President Trump, straining an alliance that goes back decades. Julian...
By Julianne Smith
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NATO Needs Solidarity for Its 70th Birthday
NATO marks its 70th anniversary this week—a remarkable milestone for a military alliance made up of 29 (soon to be 30) separate member states. But the big commemoration, sched...
By Julianne Smith
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Bolstering Congressional Support for NATO
Commentary
In January, The New York Times reported that President Trump suggested to senior advisors several times over the course of the previous year that he might withdraw the United ...
By Rachel Rizzo & Carrie Cordero
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German Foreign Policy is Stuck in Neutral
Commentary
Last summer I moved to Berlin. I was excited to escape Washington’s divisive and small-minded politics and focus on someone other than President Donald Trump, who seemed to be...
By Julianne Smith
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Dr. John Manza on NATO Readiness, NATO’s Iraq Mission, and Challenges Facing NATO Today
Podcast
Dr. John Manza, NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Operations, joins Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss the future of NATO readiness, NATO’s training mi...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Dr. John Manza
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Transatlanticism, Interrupted
Commentary
Of all the smears that US President Donald Trump has made, his mendacious claims about the European Union are perhaps the most egregious. “Nobody treats us much worse than the...
By Julianne Smith
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A Question of Statecraft
Commentary
Any Western policymaker working in the field of national security over the past decade has had to grapple with the same disheartening reality: the structures and processes tha...
By Julianne Smith
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Pompeo’s Speech in Brussels Was Tone-Deaf and Arrogant
Commentary
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo set himself an impossible task for his speech in Brussels on Tuesday: take President Donald Trump’s disparaging and often contradictory remarks ...
By Julianne Smith
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Why We Defend Europe
Commentary
Returning from the World War I armistice commemoration in Paris, President Trump reemphasized his view of America’s European allies. “We pay for large portions of other countr...
By Richard Fontaine
