Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg brief the media during a NATO defence ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels on Feb.15, 2017. Francois Lenoir / Reuters
National Interest: Mattis: "NATO Remains our Number-One Alliance"
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is reaffirming that NATO remains the United States’ most important alliance. That is despite a perception that the Trump Administration is skeptical of the alliance.
“NATO remains our number-one alliance. So I spent a fair amount of time on that effort at EUCOM. Obviously heartened coming out of the NATO ministerial would be an understatement, but the continued climbing of the defense budgets,” Mattis told reporters on Feb. 17.
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Military And Intelligence News Briefs -- February 21, 2018
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North Korean cyberspies ready to launch mass cyberattacks: Report -- Washington Examiner
U.S. to Deploy Attack Drones in Korea -- Chosun
US, South Korea planning new joint military exercises -- The Hill
Report: U.S. Pacific Command developing South Korea evacuation plans -- UPI
Interview: Head of US Air Force special ops in Asia-Pacific talks regional threats, priorities -- Defense News
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Russian Strategic Bombers Conduct Air Patrol Over Sea of Japan -- Sputnik
Russia releases video of its modernized ballistic missile defense system -- Defense News
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NATO command change to address ‘deficiencies’ -- Defense News
U.S., Israel test Arrow 3 missile system -- UPI
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6 comments:
I say let NATO crash and burn. They are more focused on this EU "army."
Hopefully no one listens to you :) but bpo.. Russian troll will agree with you. Tells you everything
NATO does need to "crash and burn." Once it does, the various nations including America can negotiate defense and other agreements with each other that make sense based upon the needs of each nation.
"Tells you everything." Agreed, it does. Some are perfectly willing to use American personnel as pawns in fights that don't serve American intersts and in many cases actually undermine them.
Actually the EU can have their "army." Lets speed this along. Set a timetable whereby US personnel are redeployed to areas that make more sense for America's defense needs. This should get them moving. Of course the negotiated timetable needs to be reasonable, will vary by each country, and should be somewhat not open knowledge.
Can secrets be kept without being "leaked?" Can European "allies" be reasonable when dealing with their American counterparts? I have doubts about this but it does need to happen.
"Russian troll." Actually I'm an American. We simply have a disagreement on American foreign policy. Mwny Americans agree with me actually. We are tired of seeing our people killed and maimed and our citizens placed in grave danger over numerous fruitless interventions around the world that don't advance our intersts and in many cases undermine them.
You also often state that Putin is the smartest person and the Russian army the strongest military lol..but sure whatever. .you're American, da da
I don't think that crashing NATO and watching it burn is the best thing ever. I just think that european countrys needs to be taught a lesson.
These countrys does not even put in the money that they per agreement should put in. They put on a big show and complain about russian aggression. They complain and put on a another big show when Trump calling NATO obsolete. They complain again when they see russian aggression. But do they put up their fair share of their BNP to the military budget, as the NATO agreement states? No.
And behind all of this they are planning this EU "army."
I'd say, crash and burn.
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