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NATO’s New Purpose: An Alliance Reborn to Take on China? NATO members should resist any attempt to substantially reorient the alliance on countering China. NATO lacks the military tools, the societal will, and the strategic imperative to cast its gaze east of Suez. Will it soon be springtime for NATO? After four years of a suddenly mercurial American partner, European foreign and defense ministers seem relieved, if not giddy, at the prospect of president-elect Joe Biden’s promised foreign policy restoration. Yet the seventy-one-year-old alliance’s “brain death,” to quote French Pre...

It is unusual for a political-military alliance to discuss its future in public. And yet that is precisely what NATO has decided to do, following French President Emmanuel Macron’s November 2019 criticism of the organisation as experiencing “brain death”. In spring, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary-general, entrusted an independent Reflection Group with the task of answering a fundamental question: how can NATO, as an effective military alliance, become stronger as a political alliance? After 90 online meetings and endless e-mail exchanges, the group presented the report “NATO 203...

Defence Secretary's speech on Defence Reform 14 Dec 2020 Defence Secretary's speech on Defence Reform Defence Secretary's speech at the RUSI Conference covering the Integrated Review, the spending review settlement and other issues for defence. Good morning, I would like to thank RUSI for giving me the opportunity to start setting out the reasoning behind the defence proposition for the Integrated Review and the MOD’s direction of travel from this point. When last month the Prime Minister called me to confirm his determination to deliver a vision for Global Britain, and defence’s ro...

Trump show exclusively everybody around the table and asking them have you paid up already this would have been that i make right now because of cause intervention was totally different on the one hand he got trump to actually say i like nato because. just to be in opposition on the other hand mccall so got his wish is to actually have a political debate is what what what are nato us antagonise what about russia what about china what about terrorism what about a plan b. if the u.s. decided to abandon the alliance or reduce its commitment what capabilities do we need to build and very much push...