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The law. Ll. All season history. The russian president convening a joint session of parliament to dismiss sanctions and say the west had crossed the red line. He signed an annexation treaty with crimea. Shortly after news reaction from the us Vice President in poland. Most notably hinted that nato military exercises i mean his nose at the last minute or two and nineteen built at an aunts crimea progressive president defended his actions in a defiant speech that accused the west of double standards the latest the al west and on his head is on the haunted states prefer not to be daunted by the school or in a practical policies. The bar the role of the god squad is they start to believe that they had been chosen and they are unique. Theyre about to start the fight to the welsh open in the bacon to waste the rights to what to do whatever they want. What does this question palins brand weekend dantes days rest of crimea treaty. The shares offered a variety of arguments to justify was not th
Better job in explaining why it is important that nations who would like to be taken seriously in the world require military capabilities to be partners in the larger endeavors that confront us. But lets be clear. Its not clear that in this country there is the kind of support we may need for defense spending at large, and it is definitely clear there is no support or no knowledge for nato. Much of our parliamently our congre congressmen and senators dont know much about nato. Most would be surprised that nato continues not only to run the Afghan Mission but have between a third and a half of the troops there from european countries. So we have done not a particularly good job of explaining the importance of nato to our own security, to our own to what it is that europe and nato contribute to what we do day in and day out. So before we start lecturing our european friends about how important it is that they go out and tell their parliamentarians how central nato is and defense spending
Service in washington, moscow and the united nations. To his right, the policy director for the Norwegian Ministry of defense. He served as director general or Security Policy director for the Norwegian Defense since 1995 and in that capacity really became known as the father of nato Security Policy. Its a delight to have you with us. He also served at nato headquarters and is one of the architects of this project that were working on. And the director here at the Atlanta Council who will speak about the terms in the cyber realm. He served as a policy director at the white house, as executive director at Goldman Sachs asia and u. S. Air force Intelligence Officer in the recently published a fierce domain, terrific history of prior conflict in cyberspace. So with that let me come back to you to kick off this discussion given the world that fred laid out what is the relevance of the meaning of deterrence as we look into the future . Thank you for the easy questions that you have posed to
When we cannot deter, we have to think about collective defense, but the point is this defense has to be collective. Nato has been defined by values and by common goods, security being a common good, not by the threats or the challenges. What i mean is, whatever the challenge, whatever the challenges, the common good we want to protect is the same. So in that respect, we have to be able to interpret, not even extensively, but to update the concept of our attack. The part made here about no military warfare being possible today without cyber dimension, about space, its a clear case for considering these dimensions as part of nato responsibility. It may well be that some of them require nato to work with other organizations or other forums, but there has to be they have to be present also in nato. The bottom line about where we can deter and where we cannot deter is westfallion plus International Environment is two stages. Even if the most democratic one and the most authoritarian dictat