Last week, NATO defense ministers agreed to send ships to waters near Somalia's coast to deter and combat piracy there.
This week NATO defense ministers will meet in Brussels to discuss cybersecurity.
In 1991, NATO defense ministers approved a radical shakeup of its forces in post-cold war Europe, including creation of a Rapid Reaction Force.
"But I'm sure we will rise to the occasion the way we have many times before, " Gates told a news conference in Krakow, Poland, where NATO defense ministers were meeting.
When I and others briefed NATO defense ministers about this discovery, however, Britain's Michael Heseltine -- then the Minister for Defense in Margaret Thatcher's government -- strenuously refused to agree that the Krasnoyarsk radar breached the ABM Treaty.
It should be noted that, simply by tabling their proposals, and without having to effect actual reductions in their military spending or their weapons production, the Soviets have already had considerable successes under Gorbachev in interfering with U.S. and NATO defense programs.
We see now the deployment of a missile defense system that is transitioning now to the defense of NATO, that ultimately will provide for the defense of Europe and the United States.
The leaders, at the end of the session, declared that they would agree to have an interim NATO ballistic missile defense capability.
Russia has been menacing its East European neighbors, including those, like Poland, that have offered to host elements of a NATO missile-defense system to protect Europe.
We need to build on the efforts of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence, based in Tallinn, Estonia, which conducts research, training and regular exercises to test the rapid-response capabilities of allied cyber-units.
Unless we are able to articulate a clear and consistent vision of the threat the Soviet Union continues to pose, there is little reason to believe that COCOM (or for that matter NATO and Western defense budgets and establishments) will be properly sustained.
The chair of the European affairs committee in the Czech Parliament Ondrej Liska says if the U.S. wants to protect NATO countries with missile defense, it should get the explicit, collective consent of NATO members.
And he killed the NATO-agreed missile defense plan for defending Europe and the United States.
Moscow is threatening to stop cooperation with NATO on its missile defense program.
The company also has contracts with the Department of Defense, NATO, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies.
If Georgia does eventually become a full member, support and defense from other NATO nations is part of the package.
It's unclear whether they can mount a proper defense now that NATO bombs have devastated their command and control system.
Russian officials have been up in arms about the new missile defense program of NATO since the start of the year.
The NATO countries are reducing their defense budgets and cutting military capabilities.
But Blair is likely to hold firm against moves to shift responsibility for European defense away from NATO and the influence of the United States.
In 1995, defense ministers from NATO and European Union countries agreed to set up a "rapid reaction force" to protect embattled U.N. peacekeeping troops from Bosnian Serb aggression.
Ellen Tauscher, the U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security said this week that the U.S. was ready to offer Russia written assurances that the NATO-backed Euro missile defense shield being built is not directed against the country.
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The countries share deep concerns of a future military threat from the east -- namely, Russia -- and may now look for other defense assurances from their NATO allies.
Russia was invited to participate in the discussion about the new missile defense shield at a NATO summit in Lisbon in 2010, despite the fact that the country is not a member.
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But, again, we have our interests that we're very clear with the Russians about, which is that we believe there's a national security interest for the United States and our NATO allies to pursue this missile defense system.
To stop these risks from being realized, he called for NATO nations to hold the line on defense investment.
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Stopping unnecessary wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and the illegal one (with NATO) in Libya will help reduce defense spending a little.
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Nor was it an acute flareup of the longstanding dispute over the equity of defense burden sharing among the NATO nations.
Third, Congress will be hard-pressed to justify sending the tax dollars of American workers abroad, to pay subsidized European workers who belong to militantly anti-U.S. labor unions that express hatred of our country and what it stands for, and who back politicians who work within NATO to undermine U.S. defense interests.
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"We believe that missile defense is a substantial contribution to NATO's collective security, " said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.
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