Yesterday, during a briefing in Latvia's capital Riga, NATO Gen. Philip Breedlove said that NATO and the United States are switching their defense doctrine from assurance to deterrence in Eastern Europe in response to a “resurgent and aggressive Russia." Breedlove added that “We are prepared to fight and win if we have to ... our focus will expand from assurance to deterrence, including measures that vastly improve our overall readiness,” Breedlove said following talks with Baltic region NATO commanders.
En debatt som saknades om värdlandsavtalet i Finland har gått desto hetare i Sverige – avtalet godkänns först efter förbud mot kärnvapen på svensk mark.
Quelle: ARTE TV http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/050296-000/taeuschung-die-methode-reagan Mit seinem Machtantritt im Jahre 1981 bestimmt Ronald Reagan die Strateg...
"It was announced yesterday that the United States will have a missile defense shield to cover its allies by 2018. Bradley Roberts, deputy assistant secretary of defense for nuclear and missile defense policy, told the House of Representatives Armed Serv
Reuters 15 april 2010 av Jim Wolf Usas antiballistiska missilsystem ska år 2018 täcka hela Europa, sa en tjänsteman vid Pentagon och utmålade ett ambitiöst mål för försvaret av ett upplevt hot utifrån Iran. ”Ett hundra procent,” sa Bradley Roberts, vid fö
by Justin Vela, SOFIA, Bulgaria (Aug. 6) -- What if you had a missile system and nowhere to put part of it? That seems to be Washington's dilemma as it shops around for a site for a system meant to protect its forces and allies in Europe and the Mideast f
By JUDY DEMPSEY Published: September 30, 2010 BERLIN — Two months before what could be the most important NATO summit meeting in more than a decade, the 28 member states of the alliance have received a draft of its new strategic concept, which for the fir
"Asked how U.S. plans to modernize tactical nuclear weapons fit with the German call for their withdrawal, the government argues that the B61 Life Extension Program (LEP) is a “national decision” by the United States, which has to be seen “independent of the question of implementation of nuclear sharing within NATO.” This is at odds with previous arguments by Chancellor Merkel that participating in nuclear sharing arrangements “secures Germany’s influence in this sensitive area of alliance politics.” If deployment of new nuclear weapons in Europe is not such a sensitive area, what is?"
The Local (Germany's news in English) AFP/DPA/The Local/jcw 21.5.2012: "NATO leaders on Sunday gave the go-ahead for the new European missile shield, provoking anger in Russia. The US air base in Ramstein, western Germany, will host part of the system."
Sardegna tre poligoni militari il terzo, il più esteso, quello sperimentale interforze del Salto di Quirra. Dove, nel sud ovest dell’isola, gli eserciti stranieri e le multinazionali testano armi innovative: quella stessa base nota per l’inchiesta giudiziaria e per il tasso sospetto di morti di tumore e leucemie.
NYT 8.8.2012: "The United States and its Arab allies are knitting together a regional missile defense system across the Persian Gulf to protect cities, oil refineries, pipelines and military bases from an Iranian attack, according to government officials and public documents. "
The Kremlin has shown little interest, in particular, in redeploying or eliminating its estimated 2,000 tactical nuclear arms with ranges that can reach European soil. By contrast, the United States fields approximately one-tenth of that size non-strategic atomic arsenal in a handful of allied nations in Europe, instead relying more on NATO's superior conventional capacity for defense." Russia military occupation of Crimea and subsequent annexation of the territory over the loud protests of Kiev has disturbed NATO to a degree not seen since the Cold War. The events of the past few weeks have triggered a significant rethink of the role of the Western alliance in deterring Russian military activity in Eastern and Central Europe."