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In addition to reports and initiatives on NATO-related issues, NATO Watch offers regular comment on current and breaking news (below). To receive email-prompts please ask to be added to the ‘comment’ mailing list by signing-up here. You can also get an RSS feed of these comments (also available on the ‘sign-up’ page) which will appear on a web site or your desktop. Or check here regularly.
If NATO cares about international crimes of aggression, why have only 14 member states ratified the new ICC statute?
Dr Ian Davis, NATO Watch
NATO releases new joint air power strategy, but no recognition of potential for civilian casualties
By Dr. Ian Davis, NATO Watch
NATO declares readiness initiative, while Secretary General plays down “serious differences” within the alliance
A review of the NATO Defence Ministers meeting, Brussels, 7-8 June 2018
By Dr. Ian Davis, NATO Watch
Key decisions taken:
NATO Parliamentary Assembly focuses on NATO Summit in July
A review of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Spring Session,
Warsaw, 25-28 May 2018
By Dr. Ian Davis, NATO Watch
NATO Military Committee sets the stage for July Summit
A review of the NATO Military Committee meeting, Brussels, 16 May 2018
By Dr. Ian Davis, NATO Watch
NATO and the airstrikes against Syria
17 April 2018
By Dr. Ian Davis, NATO Watch
Trump's Nuclear Posture Review endangers Europe
By Maxwell Downman, Analyst and Clerk to the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Global Security and Non-Proliferation
NATO confirms two new military commands and agrees a new training mission to Iraq, but burden sharing review fails transparency test
A review of the NATO Defence Ministers meeting, Brussels, 14-15 February 2018
By Dr Ian Davis, NATO Watch
Key decisions taken:
The Expanding Secrecy of the Afghanistan War
By Steven Aftergood, Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy, 8 February 2018
NATO Foreign Ministers agree to take NATO-EU cooperation to a “new level”
A review of the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting,
Brussels, 5-6 December 2017
By Dr Ian Davis, NATO Watch
Key decisions taken: