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Question & Answers Panel discussion: <em>"How can Europe bridge the capabilities gap?"</em> at the NATO/GMFUS Conference03 Oct. 2002 trying to do security with training, doctrine, equipment and personnel belonging to a previous age. Question The price that we will pay for a force which can respond very rapidly is quite a high premium. It’s expensive to have a rapid response force | Opinion |
Closing Remarks by NATO Secretary General, The Rt Hon Lord Robertson of Port Ellen at the NATO/GMFUS Conference03 Oct. 2002 many other people around here, and I have reached the age of 56 without any life insurance because my generation believed we were not going to last ten years, so what the hell was the point of wasting money on life insurance. And those who were around | Opinion |
"NATO: A Vision for 2012" Speech by NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson: "Prague 2002: Challenge and Change for NATO" at ...03 Oct. 2002 failed states. September 11 reminded us that even in an age of globalisation the state remains the central organising principle of modern civilisation. But not every state is sustainable. In the past decade or so, we have seen states collapse, fragment | Opinion |
Address by Julian Lindley-French, Senior Research Fellow, European Union Institute for Security Studies, Paris at the NATO/G...03 Oct. 2002 . However what the new age of terror has done is to set a time limit on how long this European navel gazing can continue. Make no mistake. Without strategic conceptual convergence Europeans will remain unsure as to their role, the tasks that they must fulfil | Opinion |
"What Europe wants from NATO?" by Kristin Krohn Devold, Minister of Defence, Norway at the NATO/GMFUS Conference03 Oct. 2002 Moderator: It is my pleasure to introduce Kristin Krohn Devold who became Minister of Defence of the Conservative Party in Norway just one year ago. Her background is perhaps ideal for this day and age as a Defence Minister. She studied science | Opinion |
Remarks by NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson at the GKN Farnborough Dinner, RAC Club25 Jul. 2002 , into the planned NATO AGS architecture could well make the difference between whether we succeed or fail in meeting this crucial capability goal. Ladies and Gentlemen, An open and innovative defence industrial base is the essential foundation for meeting our | Opinion |
Statement by the Secretary General of NATO on SFOR's Detention of Indicted War Criminal Darko Mrda 13 June 200213 Jun. 2002 in a particularly heinous act in which they separated a group of military-aged non-Serb men from their families as they were purportedly travelling to Travnik to be "exchanged." He ordered these men onto two buses which drove to a location called Koricanske Stinjene | Opinion |
"NATO-Russia Council Established" - Remarks by US President, George W. Bush at the opening session of NRC28 May. 2002 Russia, that is building freedom in its own land and is already joining us in defending freedom against a common enemy, we do so in the spirit of peace and friendship. The attacks of September the 11th made clear that the new dangers of our age threaten | Opinion |
Keynote speech by NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson, at Forum Europe, Brussels17 May. 2002 programme, into the planned NATO AGS architecture could well make the difference between whether we succeed or fail in meeting this crucial capability goal. Third, we need to move ahead with the European Union's Security and Defence Policy. Fifty years ago | Opinion |
Opening statement by NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson at the meeting of the EAPC15 May. 2002 to preserve our security in the modern age. Through the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council and the Partnership for Peace, North America, Europe and countries of Central Asia are now part of a political community that is unprecedented in its breadth, in its | Opinion |