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Opening remarks by Sir Paul Lever, Chairman, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) at the NATO Annual Conference14 Apr. 2005 of chairing the opening session. Our Institute is in terms of age rather a venerable body. We were founded in 1831 by the Duke of Wellington, one of whose own personal military achievements took place not so far from here, in order to promote the study | Opinion |
Remarks by General Czeslaw Piatas, Chief of General Staff, Poland at the NATO Annual Conference14 Apr. 2005 for further changes. We want to participate in the multinational program, like AGS, air-to-air refuelling, strategic airlift and others, because we understand that this way the goal is much easier achievable. Poland also supports selectively the idea | Opinion |
NATO’s top diplomat meets child Ambassador13 Apr. 2005 ”. On 13 April NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer received apainting from Child Ambassador Stefan Pleskonjik of the “The FirstChildren’s Embassy in the World”. The young artist isnot a newcomer to NATO. At the age of five, an exhibition | News |
Speech by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in Tokyo, Japan04 Apr. 2005 . When Iwas a student – and it seems ages ago -- the strategic environment wasmuch less complex, and much more predictable. With the world dividedessentially into two blocs, we faced one clear security threat. As aresult, all we needed was one single | Opinion |
"Improving linguistic interoperability" by Mark Crossey, British Council’s Peacekeeping English Project01 Apr. 2005 of their careers were often expected to acquire a completely new and difficult skill in an unrealistic space of time. Many were sent on lengthy and expensive language courses, some lasting as long as two years, away from their posts. However, due to their age | Opinion |
"Reinventing NATO (yet again) politically" by Ronald D. Asmus, German Marshall Fund of the United States’ Transatlantic Center01 Apr. 2005 and free but also with an eye towards the broader Middle East. Together, this will constitute the third great wave of Euro-Atlantic outreach and integration. Just like NATO enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe helped eliminate the age-old sources | Opinion |
Speech by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Spring Session31 Mar. 2005 nurtured, by enhanced debate with ourparliaments and with our publics, to whom we are ultimatelyaccountable. Extending debate in that way is critical in building thestrong strategic consensus that we need to tackle the great challengesof our age | Opinion |
Interview: Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope: DSACT01 Jan. 2005 need in the modern age. We need to be able to turn around lessons learned quickly in real live operations and simultaneously feed them into our training and educational facilities. We have members of the Joint Analysis Lessons Learned Centre deployed | Opinion |
Interview: Nick Witney: Europe’s capabilities’ conscience01 Jan. 2005 is taking us out of the industrial age of warfare into the information age. In Europe, we have too much heavy metal. Meanwhile, we lack all those qualities that end in I-L-I-T-Y: sustainability, deployability, mobility and interoperability. A lot | Opinion |
The Future of the Transatlantic Security Community Speech by NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Schefferat the Economic F...17 Nov. 2004 environment demands new security thinking. Today, providing security means projecting stability - including to regions outside Europe. In an age of globalised threats, a security policy focused exclusively on Europe simply will not do. Either we tackle | Opinion |
