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During his farewell speech at an event hosted by the German Marshall Fund (GMF) on 19 September 2024, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, following a decade at the helm of the alliance, shared five key lessons for NATO’s continued success:
The military situation for Ukraine has grown more difficult in recent months. There have been few breakthroughs since 2022, and the 2023 counteroffensive largely failed.
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Germans uneasy about stationing new US missiles
Their deployment could be used as part of some future deal with Russia but they're creating insecurity in the meantime
By Anatol Lieven
Burden-sharing in a trillion-dollar military alliance: The outgoing Secretary General calls for more military spending
30 September 2024
During his farewell speech at an event hosted by the German Marshall Fund (GMF) on 19 September 2024, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, following a decade at the helm of the alliance, shared five key lessons for NATO’s continued success:
Pressure grows to allow Ukraine to use long-range arms to attack Russia: but to what end?
Ian Davis
20 September 2024
The Russo-Ukraine War and NATO
By Professor Emeritus Graeme Gill
Gaslighting, victim-blaming, and hive minds at the NPT PrepCom
By Ray Acheson, Reaching Critical Will
The ‘most successful alliance in history’ turns 75, announces 'bridge to membership' for Ukraine and locks horns with China in the Indo-Pacific
Analysis of the NATO Washington Summit, 9-11 July 2024
NATO Defence Ministers discuss further support for Ukraine, a new command in Finland and ‘ongoing adaption’ of nuclear weapons
A review of the meeting of NATO Ministers of Defence
Brussels, 13-14 June 2024
NATO Foreign Ministers discuss further support for Ukraine with echoes of the long war in Afghanistan
A review of the informal meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs
Prague, 30-31 May 2024
NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine?
The military situation for Ukraine has grown more difficult in recent months. There have been few breakthroughs since 2022, and the 2023 counteroffensive largely failed.
As nuclear tensions rise between Russia and NATO, time to reach for the diplomatic toolbox
Dr. Ian Davis and Paul Ingram
14 May 2024