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Throughout is 75-year history, NATO’s European and Canadian allies have had a dependent and uneasy relationship with the United States. The relationship persisted because the United States was will...

How can NATO and its nations ensure that their military officers are properly prepared for the wars of the future? This question lies at the heart of the Alliance’s mandate to guarantee the freedom...

NATO’s Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda has failed to reach its full potential and remains a “hollow concept.” While WPS has provided added-value across NATO’s tasks, it falls short of being ...

The NATO allies often refer to the maintenance of the rules-based international order as their common foreign policy purpose. However, these same allies face great-power contenders and illiberal co...

NATO enlargement has had a far-reaching and positive impact on the European security order. Looking at Ukraine’s aspiration to join the Alliance, this article warns against closing NATO’s door and ...

In recent years climate change has become an issue for NATO. Notably, climate change features prominently in the 2022 Strategic Concept. It was not always thus. When NATO celebrated its 70th annive...

Since the late 2010s, China has become a prominent issue on NATO’s agenda. NATO’s Strategic Concept, adopted in June 2022, was the first to reference China, noting that Beijing’s “stated ambitions ...

The first Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014 brought the Atlantic Alliance back to its original mission of collective defence. In the meantime, domains of modern warfare – traditionally land, sea ...

NATO seeks to both reinforce its deterrence posture and to reach a world free of nuclear weapons. How have these policies recently evolved, and how will they be impacted by a second Trump administr...

The ability to adapt to a constantly evolving security environment has been critical to the success of NATO, yet this is being tested anew as the Alliance faces a second term of Donald Trump in the...

Celebrating the anniversary of a military alliance that has been around for 75 years is partly about looking back, identifying past successes and failures. But the exercise is also about looking fo...

The purpose of this research was to identify in the literature about Capability-Based Planning (CBP) the barriers that had been faced in its implementation in several countries’ defense agencies. I...

Severe state and state-sponsored cyberattacks against critical infrastructure (CI) is a pressing issue in contemporary conflicts. NATO member states have recognized cyberspace as a new domain of wa...

The global, regional, and national strategic environments are getting more dynamic and complex, bringing new threats and opportunities for Indonesia. In Asia, the threats that could spark instabili...

This article investigates why the European Union (EU)-NATO relations on countering hybrid threats have been characterised more by cooperation rather than by rivalry. By examining the onset and deve...

Military forces have for centuries sought to improve the intellectual, and as a result operational, effectiveness of their forces through a rigorous curriculum of professional military education (P...

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