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The Chinese navy’s hidden European past
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In the fourth in the series of European Geostrategy’s ‘Long Posts’, Iskander Rehman analyses European maritime history in relation to contemporary China’s naval modernisation. What does European history imply for China’s future? Do the hist...
The French Defence White Paper, 2013: the Global Balance-of-Power and European Defence Policy
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Introduction The 2013 French White Paper on Defence and National Security is shaping up to be a qualitatively different animal to the 2008 version. Admittedly, the two versions will share similar DNA on various security issues as both make reference...
Political Europe, with rockets.
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Something that has been interesting me recently is the surprising resilience of political Europe. It’s not supposed to work this way – economic integration was meant to pull the continent together into ever-closer union, and the imperativ...
Europe’s Response to Mali Threat
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Chaos in Mali poses risk to Europe, senior officials say. But is the response adequate?
China Steps Up Rhetoric against U.S. Missile Defense
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By Richard Weitz Chinese officials are becoming increasingly vocal about U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) devel...
Should we have a European army?
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Collectively, EU member states spent $281 billion on defence last year. On the face of it, that’s a heck of a lot of money; particularly when you consider it’s almost twice the EU’s annual budget (and witness how bitterly governm...
Europe: What Defense? An Interview with Graham Muir
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In an interview with Judy Dempsey,Graham Muir, a British security expert with the EDA, discusses the future of European defense cooperation.
Thank you Vasili Arkhipov, the man who stopped nuclear war | Edward Wilson
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Fifty years ago, Arkhipov, a senior officer on the Soviet B-59 submarine, refused permission to launch its nuclear torpedoIf you were born before 27 October 1962, Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov saved your life. It was the most dangerous day in history...
Spotkanie robocze Deutsches Kompensations Forum dotyczace Dyrektywy Obronnej – dyskusja o przyszlosci umow offsetowych.
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W dniach 24-25 wrzesnia br. mialem przyjemnosc uczestniczyc w spotkaniu Niemieckiego Forum Offsetu (Deutsches Kompensations Forum, w skrócie DKF), które odbylo sie w Dreznie. Tematem przewodnim mojej prezentacji w czasie spotkania bylo...
Czy Polska Tarcza Antyrakietowa potrzebuje specustawy?
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Wraz z podpisaniem przez Prezydenta RP Bronislawa Komorowskiego projektu ustawy o zmianie ustawy o przebudowie i modernizacji technicznej oraz finansowaniu Sil Zbrojnych RP, projekt Polskiej Tarczy Antyrakietowej staje sie coraz bardziej realny. Pyta...
A New Initiative to Achieve a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World
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video By Roman Vassilenko and Martin Sieff The ATOM Projec...
Maritime geostrategy – for small powers
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The Common Security and Defence Policy was conceived of as a means to allow Europeans to pool their military power in service of a common European interest. But are we now reaching an endpoint where Europeans will serve the British interest – the U...
The Nightmare Scenario: A U.S.-China War
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By James R. Holmes Our great and powerful editor has requested—nay, demanded!—a series of posts explori...
NATO Should Address the Iranian Nuclear Crisis
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In order to increase the pressure on Iran, NATO should finally acknowledge the country's nuclear and missile programs as an evolving risk to alliance security.
We can't allow Germany and France to run our defence industry
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By Con Coughlin With BAE Systems and EADS locked in frantic negotiations to save their proposed £28 billion m...
Let's break up BAE Systems
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Now that the BAE-EADS merger is off – vielen Dank, Frau Merkel – what future does the defence giant have? After all, having been keen to sell the company to a foreign conglomerate, the management can no longer argue that there is something inviol...
BAE/EADS deal collapse shows national interests still rule when it comes to defence
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A lot of people on both sides of the Europe debate got very excited last month about the ‘Future of Europe’ report produced by a group of EU Foreign Ministers chaired by Germany’s Guido Westerwelle. The report was certainly controversial, not l...
Europe cannot fly
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Thursday, 11 October 2012 The only winners from the collapse of the proposed €36bn merger between BAE and EADS are the Americans – and, at a pinch, the Bavarians. Among the big losers are shareholders in the U...
Americans backed the failed merger
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John Stevens Thursday, 11 October 2012 The failure of the EADS/BAE link-up must be considered a reverse for those both within and outside Government who have been campaigning for closer Anglo-French defence co-...
Abortive BAE Systems merger: EADS roll | Editorial
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The failure of the deal advertises the vulnerability of the UK's biggest manufacturer in an era of shrinking defence budgetsAnti-European sentiment in Britain is sustained by a powerful mix of tradition and sentiment. The strongest card of those who...
Why Europe needs the BAE-EADS merger to succeed | David Gow
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Europe's defence market has been far too fragmented for decades and needs the merger to consolidate its positionThe proposed pan-European aerospace and defence merger between BAE and EADS may not fly; many now believe it will collapse by the UK Takeo...
The importance of the military-industrial base
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In the third edition of European Geostrategy’s ‘Long Posts’, Daniel Fiott analyses the importance of the European military-industrial base. Why is this element of European industrial infrastructure so important? Why must it be maintained as Eur...
The Four Threats to European Security
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During a recent Carnegie Europe discussion on security issues, I asked four panelists to name the most important security threat to their respective countries.
Why NATO matters for you
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video Speech by NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the City College of New York. RE...
